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COPVKIGHT DEPOSTT. 



VOICE, SPEECH, THINKING 



A volume containing comment and statement 

of fact concerning man's use of the 

elements of the universe wherewith 

he (man) is to make intelligible 

his act and his so-called 

thought 



Supported by a Volume on 
HEALTH 

Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Intellectual 
and Psychical. 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN 

MUSIC IN AMERICA PUBLISHING COMPANY 

1920 



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First Edition, Copyright, January, 1919. 

Second Edition (Revised and Enlarged), Copyright, May, 1920 

by 

Frank Fruttchey, Detroit, Michigan. 



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191920 



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PREFACE 



My thought, being in opposition to the usual 
theories concerning the great game of life and its 
living, and knowing that it would be impossible to 
satisfy the grammarian and the language purist — I 
have purposefully indulged in repetition and an 
apparent over supply of word-forms. Therefore : 

Let every man measure the results of his reading 
according to his own individual sense of apprecia- 
tion and, as far as possible, according to his know- 
ledge of the harmonic fabrication of the universe. 

FRANK FRUTTCHEY. 



DEDICATED TO 
GRACE G. FRUTTCHEY 



CONTENTS 



Page 
MAN 7 

The LOST WORD 30 

Resonance 49 

The MASTER WORD 54 

VOICE 70 

The Break In The Voice 82 

Primitive Man 86 

Sound Forms 96 

Trade Marks Ill 

SPEECH 124 

The "Still Small Voice" 138 

THINKING 155 

Impressions 171 

Spirit 185 

Education 204 

The "What Shall I Do" 215 



MAN 

Life — is a great game man is privileged to play. 

While he finds its first manifestation in the phy- 
sical, it is almost wholly vested in the mental, or 
spiritual. Its chief function would seem to be that 
of building mental states, a condition of mind upon 
which is to rest his identity as a unit of the earth 
and of the universe. 

Everything necessary to its successful conduct 
has been provided. The physical, as an instrument, 
the mental equivalent, that phase of human action 
which represents the point of contract with those 
activities of the universe which do not ordinarily 
appear in the physical, both of which have been all 
"set" and which awaits his conscious exercise of 
the gift and the privileges vested in the game of life. 

It is quite unlike any other game as it was in- 
tended to be all benefit, pleasure and profit. If man 
in any way, therefore, fails to legitimately exercise 
its purpose, it is not because of the physical nor of 
the mental. It is rather because he has yet to un- 
derstand and to handle the machinery with which 
a successful conduct of the game is to be accom- 
plished. 

It may be stated that the success of the game is 
a particular promise of the ages of preparation 
made by Nature for man's coming. Yet, here we 
are in this otherwise clever 20th century, and when 

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the coin is tossed, we invariably get "tails." We 
painfully scratch our holdings and wonder why, for 
we cannot account for the vagaries of a game which 
seemed so full of promise and yet in which we con- 
stantly are the losers. 

The capstone of this game is — a perfect physical 
co-ordination. With this in action we ought to 
have a fine start. Yet we are unable to define or 
command this co-ordination and the failure to do 
so has been almost universal. In spite of this dis- 
tressing handicap, man is the wonder-element of 
the universe. The earth is his foot-stool. The 
mental equivalent of his physical act is his magic- 
wand, his open field, the great market-place in which 
he is to find the means to gather material with 
which to play the game safely, sanely and soundly. 
Because however material we consider ourselves, 
our chief business is almost wholly devoted to sup- 
plying what we term our spiritual wants. The 
psychical (or soul) element is his crown, his re- 
ward, the finality of life's purpose. 

These pages are particularly devoted to con- 
sideration of the conditions of Voice, Speech and 
Thinking. As they express all human activities, 
they will be found to represent and be in relation 
with everything human. Before considering the 
particular conditions of our book, a short descrip- 
tion of man who, obviously — is a physical being, es- 
sentially — a spiritual being and, potentially — a be- 
ing of soul, will, I hope, give additional value. 

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Man is, as far as is known, the one and only in- 
dividual unit of the earth to whom a full and free 
contact with the manifold activities of the universe 
was given as an especial grant with which to play 
the great game of life and its living. His native 
powers of comprehension and the action necessary 
to employ the activities of the universe place him 
beyond any other type of individual organization 
upon the earth. He is the one and only unit capable 
of bridging the gulf between the physical and spirit- 
ual departments of the universe. For in the mental 
equivalent of his physical act he has been endowed 
with powers giving him analytical rights with 
which he may fully account for every element neces- 
sary to his conduct of life and its living. He there- 
fore stands before the universe as the one and only 
representative of its Creator capable of exercising 
fully the purpose of the gift and the privileges 
vested in the game of life and its living. 

Physically, the organization of man represents 
a vast field of rights and privileges of articulation 
and, when in action in due form, it ever bubbles 
with an optimistic sense of satisfaction. It is of 
such exquisite workmanship that immediately 
upon demand, it readily and willingly devotes 
its entire mechanism simultaneously with the deli- 
cate fabrication of that with which it is associated 
— its spirit. As it has been built with this sort of 
association in view, and as it is already equipped 
to strictly mind the business of its purpose, it auto- 
matically resents technical training, as this sort of 

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action deliberately "sets" (muscularly, nervously 
and intellectually) the mental equivalent, robbing 
man of privileges which have been released especial- 
ly to it. As the mental equivalent of man is the 
place where vision is released, made possible, and 
as the physical mechanism is so delicately adjusted 
that it will immediately associate itself with spirit, 
formulating its action to the minutest phase of the 
impression in mind, man should not be subjected to 
training — as we commonly know and use it. He 
rather needs only a suggestion to enable his mech- 
anism to adapt itself to whatever is in mind. He 
needs only to find a process which will RELEASE 
the essence of the impression in mind. Training, as 
we use it and teach it, is therefore a violation of 
man's original right of action, an original right 
which would permit the physical articulating de- 
vices to strictly mind the business of their pur- 
pose. It may be therefore stated that it automati- 
cally regards (if I may so put it) technical training 
as a criminal violation of its original right of articu- 
lation — a right which it received from the Creator 
of the universe as an expression of His purpose in 
man, upon the earth and in the universe. 

We have, in the human organization, the most 
powerful "wireless station" ever invented and re- 
leased. It is part of Nature's interests to protect 
and preserve man. It is man's business to unfold 
it ; to make use of it. And he will do so when he 
rids himself of the mental food that has been im- 
pregnated into the very life-stream of his being, and 

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which in large part has been offered as of divine 
revelation. When he overcomes the paceful con- 
tent that he has been taught was of divine order 
but which spells disaster when he attempts to take 
advantage of the law of harmonic increase he will 
avail himself of his physical mechanism and its 
mental equivalent. 

His organization is particularly responsive to the 
one and only "straight and narrow path" extant — 
a perfect physical co-ordination which permits an 
action in harmony with spirit. The idea therefore 
that we have to lay a foundation is, to my mind, 
evidence of a total misapprehension of the function 
of the body as an instrument, as containing the es- 
sentials which make up spirit, as containing the es- 
sentials which release intellectual powers and which 
are centered upon the release of that element of 
human nature which we call the soul. 

That the organization of man was intended to 
make possible visual evidence of the purpose of the 
Creator upon the earth — is unquestioned. That 
man has yet to find and to fully comprehend the 
workings of the body, spirit and soul — is also un- 
questioned. The reasons for such a condition be- 
ing — he has apparently never had a complete enun- 
ciation of the workings of his organization. Under 
such circumstances he has never been able to fully 
get to his impulse and release it in due form. 

The fact that we have ever been taught and have 
EVER BELIEVED that part of the action of the 
physical was voluntary and part of it involuntary, 

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proves that we have yet to find the focal-point which 
I believe to be the line of demarcation between the 
physical and the mental or spiritual departments of 
his makeup. No one is insensible of the fact that 
the above mentioned division of the human organ- 
ization was not made with the best of intention in 
mind. There is no doubt, however, that the accep- 
tance of the theory (and this is all it ever was) is 
largely responsible for a creeping paralysis which 
overtakes the majority of the human race as they 
approach what ought to be the mellow years of life. 
It is largely responsible, too, for the usual yielding 
to physical sensations rather than to sensations 
which only appear in the mental, or spiritual, de- 
partments of man. That its enunciation, and the 
acceptance of the theory, diverted the life-giving 
stream from which power, in its relation to the pur- 
pose of man, is derived — is unquestioned. There is 
also no doubt that its teaching robbed civilization 
of much that would have been of inestimable bene- 
fit and value to the human race in the way of sensi- 
tiveness to and command of impression and expres- 
sion. I am of the opinion that every phase of the 
physical mechanism which, reduced to its own focal- 
points, chemicalization, assimilation and elimina- 
tion, is subject to control by virtue of a sensitive- 
ness which only appears in the mental equivalent 
of the physical. The right to such an opinion is 
based upon the fact that when a body is released 
through birth, it has just enough energy of its own 
— under stress of the automatic precision of natural 

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law — to bring it to maturity. Its possessor then 
ought to be in position to supervise and care for it 
through the rest of the time of its existence. In 
other words, it seems quite clear that man has con- 
fused the automatic precision of natural law with 
what he terms the involuntary action of the body. 
And in so doing he has actually prevented the ma- 
jority of the human race from exercising rights of 
impression and expression. 

Having only a partial control of the physical, 
man lacks a physical and mental alertness which is 
so necessary to a successful conduct of the great 
game of life which he is privileged to play. He is 
forced to live by virtue of an original impulse suffi- 
cient to keep the body going until its possessor is 
in position to command its resources — partly — and 
that is all he has for life. If he falls under the do- 
minion of the automatic precision of natural law 
and therefore fails to find his right of individual 
volition, we have here a reason for it. It proves the 
above mentioned teaching entirely out of harmony 
with the original fabrication of the human organiza- 
tion and the purpose of its mental equivalent — with 
which he comes into contact with those activities 
of the universe which do not ordinarily appear in 
the physical. Our fathers were evidently quite 
insensible to the want of harmony in a use of 
the human organization, its original attachment 
to the activities of the universe and the pur- 
pose of the physical and its mental equivalent. If 
man is to be measured according to the fabrication 

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of the human organization and its originally estab- 
lished relation to the universe, it has to be con- 
fessed that he has signally failed to realize and play 
the great game of life and its living. He has been 
put through a laborious effort to be decently human, 
to himself and to his fellows. According to the evi- 
dence which I purpose giving there is absolutely 
no legitimate reason for his having thus failed, and 
for his having been put through such a laborious 
effort to become human. 

All men agree that life is a great game. They 
agree that it offers fascinating problems and that 
the processes with which these problems may be 
solved are an unexampled opportunity to prove our 
individual right to the privileges of the game. The 
evidence of a definite purpose is: 

The first business of man, is — physical action. 

The second business of man, is — spiritual ac- 
tion. 

The third business of man, is — psychical (or 
soul) action. 

While these as stated are just as man finds him- 
self, it is curious to note that the reverse order is 
true. It is put in this order, however, for the physi- 
cal is man's first evidence of life and its living, that 
is, he thinks it is. And to deny it would overlook 
the countless ages of preparation made by Nature 

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for man's coming. He is, however, under the do- 
minion o£ a silent, powerful impellent — registrations 
of impression — which is released to him in the form 
of an impulse, and which guides him to a realization, 
via his mental equivalent, of the great game he is 
to* play. And which in combination with the phy- 
sical and mental enables him to uncover a third, the 
psychical (or soul) element of human nature. I be- 
lieve that this silent, powerful impellent (ordinarily 
silent because it has yet to be brought within the 
range of man's articulating estates — via his mental 
equivalent) is a most vital focal-point, and that it 
should have been released to man bespeaks volumes 
of the purpose of the Creator in providing interests 
to protect and to preserve man's identity as a unit 
of the earth and of the universe. Why man has 
been unable to definitely get to it and to use it is 
incomprehensible, for his every movement is a de- 
terminant of its purpose. 

The first evidence of Purpose in the universe, is 
— expression. 

The second evidence of Purpose in the universe, 
is — the provided focal-points for giving expression 
to Purpose. 

The third evidence of Purpose in the universe, 
is — the centralization of these focal-points in an in- 
dividual organization, man. 

The purpose of life and its living is dependent 
upon man's ability to trace and be in command of 

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these focal-points so that he may give expression 
through them at will. The purpose of the Creator 
in man, upon the earth and in the universe — as far 
as man is concerned — is therefore dependent upon 
man's ability to clearly release his sensibilities upon 
these focal-points. Further evidence of Purpose is 
to be found in: 

First, a physical manifestation of purpose pro- 
duced man, the physical. 

Second, a physical manifestation of purpose 
brings into play man, the spiritual, via a mental 
equivalent of the physical act. 

Third, man is the heir to that combination of 
the physical and the mental equivalent of purpose 
which we term the psychical (or soul) element of 
human nature. 

In each of these, man has been provided with 
every necessary articulating requirement (the phys- 
ical separate from the spiritual — the psychical be- 
ing a combination of the two) to release definitely 
to his well being the activities of the universe. 
Placed between these two great worlds of physical 
and spiritual material, whatever his course of action 
the wealth of the physical lies behind him; what- 
ever his course of action, the wealth of the spiritual 
lies before him. When he is fully cognizant of the 
activities of these two worlds and has them well in 
hand and in mind, he will be in position to establish 
himself as an independent thinker and worker 

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among them that he may live and have life more 
abundantly. 

Unfortunately, although he has sensed that he 
ought to be an unbound individual he stands, today, 
helplessly involved. He has no dependable use of 
his original rights of articulation — either physical or 
in and through his mental equivalent — with which 
he may freely and fully make his act and his thought 
intelligible. He has, however, always had an inde- 
finable sense that he was the product of the un- 
counted ages of Nature's effort to produce a per- 
fectly balanced individual organization capable of 
interpretating and of articulating her forces. But 
for some unknown reason he is uncomfortably aware 
that he is quite unable to take advantage of his re- 
sources. If he is asked why he finds himself in such 
a plight he resents the question, and if he is pressed 
for an answer he is compelled to admit that he 
DOES NOT KNOW. Although he is quite unable 
to explore the wealth which lies behind him and the 
greater wealth which lies before him — both of which 
were established for his benefit, pleasure and profit 
— he is, in many instances, grossly insulted because 
he is asked to give reasons for his lack of ability to 
do so. He has, too, an indistinct sense that that to 
which he has been conducted actually represents a 
great frontier separating the physical from the men- 
tal or spiritual. Could he distinguish clearly the 
distinctions which exist between these two great 
worlds, it would mean much to him and to the civi- 
lization of which he is a part. He is therefore com- 

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pelled to admit that he stands between these two 
great worlds totally unable to definitely employ the 
distinctions that therein exist. And, although the 
privileges vested in the game of life which he is to 
play are dependent upon his successful exercise of 
these distinctions, he stupidly satisfies himself with 
twiddling his thumbs while he lets some one else 
solve the question for him. It is to be noticed, how- 
ever, that when he lets some one else solve the ques- 
tion for him, they usually want pay for doing it. 
And they usually take their pay in an advantage 
which they are quick to recognize and make use of. 
Undoubtedly this is the origin of that state of 
human mind which permitted autocratic forms of 
government to dominate the human race. Other 
than this, man calls upon his God as He — so his 
ecclesiastical teachers have informed him — would 
save him from error, deceit, wickedness and a host 
of other inhuman characteristics. With this teach- 
ing firmly imbedded in his makeup, he wilfully and 
stupidly refuses to look about him to discover the 
distinctions which obtain in the activities of the 
universe, and which have been provided that he 
might play the great game of life safely, sanely and 
soundly. 

As a babe he enters the world with three great 
efforts to articulate the one and the only Word 
provided that man might make his act and his 
thought intelligible. These three great efforts are — 
the automatic compulsion of what breath he has 
at birth, the inhalation of a new breath and its com- 

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pulsion. The first is, possibly of surprise, born per- 
haps of physical stimulation. The second is pos- 
sibly of pain at the reception of the new breath, and 
the third phase of his three great efforts has in its 
sound a sort of satisfaction in having accomplished 
the breath of life. From thence on he loses its 
purpose and the original right of its action in a 
muscular and nervous seizure— which is later taught 
is rightly based. As a child he struggles to give 
expression to his limited wants and from day to 
day he may be noticed as gradually laying hold of 
his slowly unfolding physical body and as he is 
slowly awakening a corresponding, or mental equiv- 
alent — upon which rests spirituality. As he gradu- 
ally expands physically, it is to be noticed that he is 
expanding spiritually. But it has always been a 
question whether the physical or the spiritual would 
dominate his sense of the game he is privileged to 
play. The reason for it being that he has never had 
an education which fully understood the function of 
the organs of the body. He therefore has never 
had an educational institution to which he could go 
for an explanation and instruction to help him over 
these perilous times of his life. Consequently, un- 
less he is well organized physically, his original ar- 
ticulating status will be smothered and he will be 
stifled for lack of vision. But it is not because he 
lacks material for vision. It is rather because he is 
not physically co-ordinated. He is therefore shot 
through the time of his physical life on the theory 
that "What was good enough for his fathers was 

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good enough for him/' In his struggle to worthily 
emulate his fathers he finds ,at the end of his time 
on this Good Old Mother Earth, that he has not 
been able to do his fathers justice or justice to him- 
self. 

If man, who is said to have been "Made in His 
Image," has any right to hope to accomplish the 
purpose of the great game of life and to forge a 
progressive civilization, he must rid himself of such 
states of mind. But in order to do so he encounters 
difficult problems, as the whole of the human race 
has been so impregnated with traditional and medi- 
eval readings of the powers of man and of God that 
the majority are too much enslaved before they ar- 
rive at this Good Old Mother Earth to receive its 
physical rights and spiritual privileges. Whether 
the ancient mysteries and its modern successors — 
the isms, cults, religions and ecclesiastical doctrines 
of belief — are a true account, makes no difference. 
They constitute a dose which he must swallow — for 
the well being of his soul. As these make up the 
greater part of his attitude of mind and are impreg- 
nated in his mental makeup before he is conscious 
of his individual volitional powers, he is detained 
from exercising the full purpose of the gift and the 
privileges vested in the game of life, according to 
the manner in which the essentials of its purpose is 
so wonderfully and clearly outlined, and that while 
he runs he may read and digest. 

Man is the product of Nature's effort to produce 
a perfectly balanced individual unit capable of fully 

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accounting for the purpose of the game of life and its 
living. He was brought to a great focal-point where 
it was possible for him to proceed — and "Fear No 
Danger." To my mind this focal-point is to be 
found in — a perfect physical co-ordination and an 
action in harmony with spirit. To my mind, it 
represents the one and only measure of health stand- 
ards — physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual and 
psychical. A few facts concerning this focal-point 
may be of interest: 

1. Nothing can prevent individual volition when 
established upon it. 

2. Nothing foreign to the purpose of life can 
penetrate deeply within the human organization and 
its workings when action is established upon this 
focal-point. 

3. It enables the physical to strictly mind the 
business of its purpose which is to support the 
business of the purpose of man while engaged in 
building mental states. Nothing therefore can 
deeply invade man while thus engaged. 

4. It will automatically bring into play and 
care for every muscle in sequence — in the chain of 
muscles of the body. And here is an instance 
of the unnecessary technical training through 
which the majority of men are put in order to 
command muscular action, and which so un- 
mercifully violates the integrity of the physical 
mechanism, its ability to strictly mind the busi- 
ness of its purpose. 

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5. It enables man to reach and to articulate 
the impression in mind as it does not permit an 
overcharge of energy, but automatically applies 
just the amount needed to sense and to discharge 
the impulse in mind. It is therefore a preventa- 
tive of muscular and nervous disorders. 

If we apply it as a measure of human efficiency 
in the application of energy and its uses to the 
artistic, political and religious branches of human 
endeavor, it will prove a veritable revelation as 
it will show the general lack of competency in 
a use of rights of articulation, both physical and 
mental, or spiritual. 

If we apply it to find a just and true measure 
of man's individual relation to those activities of 
the universe which do not ordinarily appear in 
the physical, and which have been reserved for 
spiritual purposes, it will show and prove many 
things which we, some of us, do not care to have 
revealed. 

It is equally applicable to the man who digs the 
sewer and to the man who writes a thesis on 
reason. In each it will clearly show the reason 
for the lack of ease — the relationship of the phy- 
sical act to the impulse. 

Without it man is practically helpless before the 
activities of the universe. And it is the reason 
why he has been able to only accidentally, now 
and then, secure lasting results from his endeavor 
to make his act and his thought intelligible. Be- 

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cause he has lacked this postulate he has con- 
fused the ecstasy of the physical with the ecstasy 
of the spiritual. And this, in my opinion, is the 
chief contribution to the present plight of articula- 
tion of man. These ecstasies differ in purpose, 
texture and function. And, in a confusion of one 
with the other, man is besieged at every turn he 
makes by impulses which he does not under- 
stand, and over which he has no control. The 
only safe, sane and sound postulate upon which 
he may definitely measure and exercise the ecsta- 
sies of the physical and the spiritual is — a per- 
fect physical co-ordination and an action in har- 
mony with spirit. This would appear to be the 
only postulate upon which man can get complete 
satisfaction from either ecstasy and to employ 
the function of each. The leaders of civiliza- 
tion may not want to admit that man has con- 
fused the ecstasy of the physical with the ecstasy 
of the spiritual. But the fact stands before the 
intelligence of this 20th century with sufficient 
force to demand attention. Further, some of the 
reasons for physical impediments which, in large 
measure cause man to confuse the ecstasy of the 
physical with the ecstasy of the spiritual, are be- 
ing shown by the X-ray. Secret mechanical dis- 
turbances are shown, mechanical disturbances 
which would make it impossible for the physical 
mechanism to strictly mind the business of its 
purpose which is, to release spirit. 

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The human organization, being the finest and 
most complete chemical laboratory extant, it is the 
business of man to keep it in condition. If he in 
any way interferes with its processes of action 
either consciously or unconsciously he must pay the 
price, which is — a false vision of the purpose of 
the physical and spiritual activities of the uni- 
verse. It may be stated, too, that man is made 
up of two distinct and separate types, means or 
modes, wherewith the human race is to be per- 
petuated. One is physical and is directly associ- 
ated with the function of the organs of sex. 
The other is spiritual and is directly associated 
with the function of the organs of speech. The 
disturbing factor in man's effort to successfully 
play the great game of life and its living is that 
few men are entirely able to separate the action 
which proceeds from either impulse to perpetu- 
ate the human race. Practically all conception of 
the great game of life and its living has been 
forged upon a confusion of the physical with the 
mental, or spiritual. On this fact the intelligence 
of the world will find the cause for the distressing 
degenerating tendencies so often exhibited in the 
physical as well as in the spiritual. Few men are 
definitely able to determine the origin of an im- 
pulse. Most men obey it automatically. This 
inability to determine the origin of an impulse has 
pervaded our art standards, and — more is the pity 
— it is the dominating note of some of our religious 
institutions. Man has, in the past, been so hope- 

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lessly involved with his impulses that he has of- 
fered the ecstasy of the physical as evidence and 
revelation of the "Real Presence" of the Lord of 
Hosts. But such a state of mind and action can 
only satisfy those who seek an outlet for impression 
and expression in our modern isms, cults, religions 
and ecclesiastical doctrines of beliefs. It can only 
satisfy those who are under the automatic precision 
of natural law. It can never satisfy those who seek 
to employ volitional powers which places them in 
direct contact and association with those activities 
of the universe which do not ordinarily appear in 
the physical. 

If it is the limit of revelation concerning the 
"Real Presence" of the Lord of Hosts it forces 
upon this 20th century a most strenuous duty which 
is — to give greater publicity to this most unfortu- 
nate reading of human power and of the power of 
God. And that human sense of both phases of power 
may be set more normally in accord with the pur- 
pose of the ecstasies of the physical and the spirit- 
ual departments of man. 

There is a curious intimacy between the func- 
tion of the sex organs and the function of the 
organs of speech and of the throat. Where one 
is affected the other, sympathetically — at least — 
is affected. This is an instance of the close re- 
lationship of the two types, modes or means, 
wherewith the human race is to be perpetuated. 
They both are phases of the general purpose of 

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MAN 

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life and its living as a means to perpetuate the 
human race — but they differ in degree and in pur- 
pose. The confusion of the one with the other rep- 
resents the great tragedy of all human time. 

Under any stage of the great game of life 
and its living, an impulse is of such subtle sub- 
stance and is so generally elusive that it is at 
all times difficult to find the focal-point from 
which it proceeds and with which it may be de- 
termined and its purpose discharged. But there 
is direct evidence of the separateness of the func- 
tion of an impulse. It shows itself in our every 
act and thought. It shows itself particularly in our 
use of the privileges vested in the great game of life 
and its living. The evidence of it I purpose show- 
ing in the following chapters of this volume. 

Because of our confusion of the two sets of im- 
pulses we have defeated the Purpose of the Grand 
Architect of the universe in and upon this planet 
we call the earth. We have no mode of expression 
which may be considered entirely trustworthy and 
dependable. We are compelled to travel through 
life catering to man's pleasure rather than to the 
purpose for which he was designed. The brutal na- 
ture of such a situation is beyond expression. It 
is a horror of titanic proportions — especially as 
there would appear no legitimate excuse for it 
whatsoever. 

The hopeful element which may yet save the 
human race is to be found in the one and only 
"straight and narrow path" — a perfect physical 

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MAN 

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co-ordination and an action in harmony with 
spirit. Upon this and this alone can man ever 
hope to clearly sense the origin of an impulse and 
command it. Upon this and this alone can man 
ever hope to decently and in order translate an im- 
pression to mental and physical terms of expres- 
sion without damage to its original purity and 
excellence. Such a state of joint co-ordination 
(physical and mental) is man's open door to 
vast interests vested in the spiritual realms of the 
universe. With it at his command the activities 
of the universe are spread before him — ready to 
obey his slightest movement. 

But such is the situation today. 

It is of such proportions that the thinkers of 
the civilized world are much alarmed — some even 
stating that it would appear practically hopeless; 
that man had somehow and somewhere lost an in- 
defeasible right to health standards at least suffi- 
cient for him to accomplish fully the purpose of the 
game of life and its living. These men all agree 
that the physical texture of the human race has so 
degenerated that it now is a problem of the first 
magnitude as to how best to regain what would 
appear as a normal right thereto and therein. It may 
be stated, however, that when man definitely learns 
to separate his impulses and to act upon each in 
due form he will be able to release to each the 
force to which it is originally attached. But, as 
long as he is without the necessary knowledge to 

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MAN 

do this he is doomed to degenerating tendencies 
both physical and spiritual. However, the situation 
is not entirely hopeless. And while the human race 
has been overwhelmed, there are yet indications 
that it will right itself in due time. 

Physical co-ordination exists to protect spirit. 

Upon such a state of action man should not 
know the physical exists. But this fact is no ex- 
cuse for some of our modern isms, cults, religious 
and ecclesiastical doctrines of belief to assume the 
position that the physical is an illusion and that 
Spirit is the all pervading essence of life. It is 
no excuse for the belief that God is Spirit, for to 
place God in spirit alone is to confine God. And 
who has the right to confine God to mere spirit? 

Physical co-ordination and an action in har- 
mony with spirit exists to protect and to preserve 
man; that he might build mental states of suffici- 
ent calibre to find his identity and to establish 
his Kingdom of Individuality. It exists for the 
purpose of expression, sustaining in vocal motion 
what he has in mind. It exists that he might re- 
ceive, sustain (in vocal motion) and release the 
purpose of the silent, powerful impellent. 

The answer to the problem of the game of 
life is to be found, therefore, in — a perfect phy- 
sical co-ordination and an action in harmony with 
spirit. It is upon this and this alone that the 
physical may receive its full quota of satisfaction, 
and the joy of service rendered to spirit. With 
a proper use of the two sets of articulating de- 

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MAN 

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vices — each separate and in action accordingly — 
both the physical and the mental will spring to 
life with a rejuvenating force, for there is noth- 
ing in all the world which so inspires an intelli- 
gent human being as being able to strictly mind 
the business of life. 

The endeavor to find man's relation to the 
universe has been centered upon an effort to make 
use of what was termed The Lost Word. 



29 



THE LOST WORD 

The intention of the so-called Lost Word, its 
action and the purposes to which it may be put, 
has been the coveted goal of many individuals 
of the ages past. It has been dilligently sought 
as it was said to contain articulating interests 
which would solve all human difficulties. It there- 
fore offered fascinating problems before which 
all human intelligence has bowed, hoping ever to 
secure dominion over the universe, but more es- 
pecially an advantage over the vast uninformed 
multitudes. 

Fortunately for the human race, the so-called 
Lost Word has never been nor is it likely to be the 
special property of any individual or institution. 
Fortunately, too, for the human race, it has never 
been nor is it likely to be the especial property of 
any occult mystery, ism, cult, religion or ecclesiasti- 
cal doctrine of belief whatsoever. It is (again 
fortunately for the human race) a real red-blooded 
proposition between the Creator and His crea- 
tures for whom He builded the universe and 
whom He "Made In His Image." 

The elements of which it is composed offer an 
unbound interest of human concern. They offer 
problems, even if elusive, which all red-blooded 
men love to tackle, for such a state of human body, 

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THE LOST WORD 

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spirit and soul is always responsive to the necessity 
of fighting for physical and spiritual sustenance. 
It may be said to account, at least in part, for the 
gambling instinct which is so prevalent in the 
majority of the human race. If we were to ever 
put our gaming instinct to a more legitimate use 
we should undoubtedly uncover, unravel and unfold 
greater interests of impression, rights of expression 
and appreciation. 

Volumes have been written on the so-called 
Lost Word. 

Philosophers have dreamed lovely dreams con- 
concerning its potential force and attachment. 

Scientists have scratched its surface and have 
shouted "eureka" while scrambling over an infin- 
itesimal portion and sense of it. 

Ecclesiasticism has shaken its head while utter- 
ing warning, and in some instances issuing anathe- 
mas upon any daring man who transgressed upon 
the possessions of God. 

The common folk have always been left behind 
to sing the ancient ode — "where, oh where has our 
Lost Word gone." 

In spite of the cleverness of this 20th cen- 
tury's use of intelligence we have yet only a meager 
speculative interest to our sense and action of the 
Lost Word. And, while it would appear to be in 
the variable elementaries with which man is sur- 
rounded and with which he is to make his act 

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THE LOST WORD 

iiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiN 

and his thought intelligible, we are a long way 
from realizing its action and from plucking it 
from its hidden and secret fastenings. 

Much speculation has been given as to its origin, 
function and the reasons why it was a Lost Word. 
Considerable time has been given to theorizing as to 
its supposititious power to relieve a troubled human 
race of the ills which had overtaken and befallen it. 
Religions, cults, isms and occult mysteries of every 
description have sought to capture its action and 
its province that they might place it in a gilded cage 
where it never again would be a naughty Lost 
Word — roaming a very bad and wicked world, 
defying and denying them its power. 

Some have stated that it was imbedded in a 
course of instruction, and that its full intent and 
content could only be uncovered therein. It may be 
stated, however, that as our present language forms 
are based upon a fragmentary use of the composite 
sound-form of the earth (whose purpose and action 
we have never been able to fully realize) this is not 
altogether true, as the course of instruction, how- 
ever valuable it may be in the way of analysis, must 
inevitably fall under the dominion of a half interpre- 
tation. The difficulty has always been to discover 
the course of instruction which would embody the 
full essence of the so-called Lost Word. 

Throughout the ages a single word has been 
sought that would perform in its pronouncement, 

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THE LOST WORD 

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the miracle of miracles which a credulous and un- 
suspecting public had been led to believe existed, 
and which would upon its pronunciation absolutely 
relieve the public from misery etc. But, then as 
now, the multitudes have actually sought a button- 
like contrivance with which they might turn on 
the immortal fluids of the universe. Somehow, 
however, the multitudes seem to have lost faith in 
the existence of such an instrument as the Lost 
Word, and they are now giving the masters of 
public leadership a hard race for the fruits of the 
earth. 

In ancient times as well as in the present the 
priests of the established churches would enter the 
Holy of Holies (so it is stated) to pronounce the 
Word of Words, while all the people on the outside, 
at a perfectly respectable distance (for obvious rea- 
sons), would busy themselves shouting great shouts. 
Of course it was a fortunate thing for the people 
(and the priests) that the people were willing to 
stand on the outside, at a perfectly respectable dis- 
tance, for under such circumstances and amid the 
babble of noise, neither the priests nor the people 
need pay the slightest attention to the content of 
the Word of Words nor yet to its particular mode 
of pronunciation. The people were too busy gath- 
ering sore throats, tired and weary bodies and much 
befuddled brains to bother themselves either with 
the word or its particular mode of pronunciation. 
And so — as no explanation would be asked none 

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THE LOST WORD 

need be given. The rest of the operation consisted 
in "living happily ever afterwards/' 

We smile at the credulity of our ancient breth- 
ren. Somehow we do not seem to realize that we 
are afflicted with the same sort of artistic camou- 
flage which we accept as an evidence of the "real 
presence." Were it not so serious it would be down- 
right silly, if not criminal. It is, however, just this 
type of crude legerdemanic art which has impelled 
upon the human race a distrust of man's readings 
of the potential activities vested in the human or- 
ganization and the universe. 

Individuals, races and nations have sought a par- 
ticular word which would in its potency ease the 
troubled bodies and minds of the multitudes. In 
some instances there was such a strong belief in the 
existence and the efficacy of its intent and its con- 
tent that upon the slightest suggestion of its pro- 
nunciation, fluidic and plasmic changes would im- 
mediately take place in the physical body. In other 
instances, a complete rejuvenation of the physical 
and sometimes of the spiritual and the intellectual 
would take place upon the reception of the intent of 
such a word. Fortunately for the majority of the 
human race, we in this 20th century, recognize in 
such an action a therapeutic agency of strong and 
definite value when properly used. Yet, even in 
this 20th century there is a goodly number of in- 
dividuals, particularly of the ecclesiastical types, 
who openly abuse the privilege of suggestion and 

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THE LOST WORD 

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIintlllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilllllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllltlllllH 

who deliberately take advantage of their less in- 
formed fellows. They know, however, full well 
what they do and its deleterious effect upon the 
individuals concerned and upon standards of effi- 
ciency in general. They know full well that the 
spiritual has been reduced to the baldest mixture of 
physical and spiritual impulses, and that if they can 
keep it so, they can also keep their hold upon the 
ignorant multitudes whom they are said to serve. 

It was also stated in ancient times that the pro- 
nunciation of the Lost Word would cause the earth 
to tremble and the very angels of heaven to quake 
with fear. The occult mysteries, isms, cults, relig- 
ions and ecclesiastical doctrines of belief have reit- 
erated that — some even going so far as to state that 
any man who pronounced its full essence would 
automatically take the name of the Lord of Creation 
in vain. But no one need fear taking the name 
of the Lord of Creation in vain, for any man who 
could come within a reasonable concept of its in- 
tent and its content as well as giving the human 
race its full and complete pronunciation, would 
confer the greatest blessing upon the human 
race; a blessing that could not be surpassed at 
any given time of the earth's existence. How- 
ever, there was sufficient in the statement that 
it would cause the earth to tremble and the 
very angels of heaven to quake with fear, for if 
its full intent and content were ever released 
and delivered to the human race, man would have 

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THE LOST WORD 

at his command a real universal solvent. With this 
in his possession there would be a real cause for 
worry, both on this Good Old Mother Earth and in 
those distant parts which we have called heaven. 
The great armies of disembodied peoples (or angels) 
— those who had gone to that great country im- 
pressed with its beauty, according to the older read- 
ings of human and divine potentiality, would have 
to learn the lesson of life all over again. No longer 
would they be able to lazily amble the bejeweled 
streets of paradise. The "work or fight" (for your 
life) dictum had been spread broadcast over the 
universe — as a just and sane measure of life and its 
great game. Man, and the angels would have some 
real work to do. They would have to buckle to the 
real business of life and its living. However, 
neither man nor the angels need worry. The old 
musty, moth-ridden tales of human rights of arti- 
culation will stand for a long time. The old will yet 
be used to set nations at war with one another. 
The old will yet be used to abuse sections of the 
human race by those who are absolutely sure that 
they alone are the chosen of God and that they alone 
possess the essence of the Lost Word. The old will 
yet be used to create and foster egotistical tenden- 
cies of the most presumptuous types and to despoil 
the rights of others who do not agree with their par- 
ticular mode of its interpretation, and of its expres- 
sion. 

In the past, and none the less in these 20th cen- 
tury days, some individuals and some institutions 

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THE LOST WORD 

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiN 

actually have sought State and National legislation 
prohibiting a use of their particular name or inter- 
pretation of it — stating it was their desire not to 
have it profained. In other words, it was their de- 
sire to perpetuate the "closed shop" idea which had 
been placed upon what we commonly term spirit. 
But according to their particular sense of it, they 
are the chief violators of its essence. And what this 
20th century particularly needs is protection 
through a scientific knowledge of its essence, from 
such as these. This 20th century's intelligence 
needs to be protected from institutions who would 
prevent a larger and more voluminous vision of the 
purpose of the Creator upon the earth. This 20th 
century's intelligence should be protected — in the 
legislative bodies, if necessary — if they wished to 
sense the Creator as capable of building activities 
beyond the limited vision of those who are abso- 
lutely sure that they alone are the chosen of God. 
They should be protected from those who would 
confine God to spirit, and who would deny His pres- 
ence in the physical. 

Religions, past and present, claim possession of 
the intent and the content of the so-called Lost 
Word. All listen patiently for an expected answer 
from its author. But no answer is available. Appar- 
ently, silence pervades the heavens of the universe. 
The German Kaiser gathers courage — "mine by 
divine right of the mailed fist" and the slaughter of 
millions of men, women and children, including the 

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THE LOST WORD 

niuiiinitinujiiiuiiiitiiiiinihiiiiiiiituiifiitttiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiuiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiutiUftiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiifiiiiiiiiufiiiMiiiiiuiitiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiunuiiifiifiiniiiiiiiiiiiniuiiiiiifiHi 

disruption of the peaceful occupation of life the 
world over. The church also gathers courage — 
"Mine by divine right of spiritual conquest, even 
if we do send countless billions of men, women and 
children to that great country called heaven, totally 
unprepared to live its life according to its fabrica- 
tion and purpose." All pray "Our Father" and then 
proceed to push "Our Father" to a place in the 
clouds where He is not available. Few have the 
moral courage to allow "Our Father" to be such, 
and to release a lasting "peace, good-will to all men" 
on this terror stricken world. 

The perpetrators of the world war have been 
called "world criminals." 

What shall be said of Occult Science and its 
successors — the itsms, cults, religions and eccles- 
iastical doctrines of belief — which have sent the 
human race to tangents preventing it from sensing 
and articulating its original interests of impression, 
rights of expression and appreciation? 

The whole reading of the intent and the content 
of the so-called Lost Word is entirely incompetent. 
It will not be made clear and its intent and content 
fully unraveled until the articulating route between 
the physical and the spiritual departments of man, 
is more scientifically established as an original 
human right. None of the above mentioned insti- 
tutions seem able to actually pronounce the intent 
of the Name of God, let alone the content of the so- 
called Lost Word. Each and all exhibit physical 
defects and with these defects of spiritual vision 

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THE LOST WORD 

concerning those activities of the universe which 
ordinarily do not appear in the physical, but which 
especially exist that man may find life more abund- 
antly. Fortunately for the human race, there are no 
secrets concerning the essence of the Lost Word. 
Fortunately, too, there are no especially devised 
trap-doors, no mysteries, no intangible machinery 
and no elusive and impossible problems to be over- 
come in seeking the action with which its purpose 
may be released to the individuals of the human 
race. But wars have been set in motion because of 
its supposititious possession. Massacres have been 
ordered by the so-called divine right of kings and 
of the church. All sorts of horrors have been per- 
petrated because some of the human race grew so 
mighty in their own conceit (because they could 
and did play upon the ignorance of the multitudes — 
and in this acquired an artificial sense of power) 
thinking they alone had possession of it. The per- 
petrators of these horrors have had the consummate 
nerve to ask the rest of civilization to accept them 
as evidence of divine revelation and love. 

It is to the common folk that we may turn for 
a more and more healthy reading of its intent and 
its content. It is the common folk who will more 
and more readily recognize protective interests 
vested in the articulating route between the physi- 
cal and spiritual departments of man. 

As the human organization is apparently a com- 
posite of the activities of the universe, it has always 
been felt, at least intuitively, that man had been 

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THE LOST WORD 



vested with a grand focal-point with which he might 
individually sense, articulate and release the intent 
and the content of the so-called Lost Word. To 
find this focal-point has therefore been man's chief 
interest. To the majority of the human race, how- 
ever, it held no interest, as these were satisfied with 
what they thought they had in mind and in hand. 
They were easily imposed upon therefore by those 
who sensed greater possibilities in the action and 
the province of the Lost Word. To the great ma- 
jority its solving was an interest altogether too 
baffling in its problems, as it necessarily covered a 
wide range of experience and expression. To the 
philosopher, the thinker and the scientist, the possi- 
bilities vested in its intent and its content held an 
all-absorbing interest. Yet today there are few 
who, although they are actually dependent upon it 
for an honest-to-goodness expression of the great 
game of life and its living, can give even an approxi- 
mation of its given focal-point — of which they are 
resultants and to which they proceed. People are 
so submerged in word forms and their variations 
that all sense of actual root-derivatives is com- 
pletely lost to view. Scientific endeavor and re- 
search has, however, been able to localize the root 
derivatives of our word forms to some 1,700 odd. 
These later were reduced to some 300 odd. But it 
was the philosophers and the thinkers of ancient 
India who gave to the world of human intelligence 
the first actual sense of a root source of all vocal 

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THE LOST WORD 

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idioms of expression. This root source is none 
other than the action necessary to produce the 
sound of the three letters A. U. M. To the ancient 
Hindu, this A. U. M. actually represented the sub- 
stance of the so-called Lost Word, for upon its 
action and upon the sound produced he could ac- 
count for every variation of human articulating in- 
terests of impression, rights of expression and ap- 
preciation. In its promulgation he most certainly 
released a wonder-element ; one that has never been 
surpassed. All language forms may be traced to it. 
All letter, syllable, word and sentence formations 
may be traced to it. As a practical and philosoph- 
ical delineation of human articulating rights it was 
stated that the A. U. M. actually represented 
"Knowledge, Power and Perfection." As the ac- 
tion and the sound of this A. U. M. actually is re- 
lated to the necessary physical and spiritual con- 
ditions wherewith "Knowledge, Power and Perfec- 
tion'' are to be attained and to be released, the 
statement cannot be successfully disputed. For it 
is an unquestioned fact that Knowledge is the base 
of Power and that both Knowledge and Power are 
dependent upon Perfection. Then, too, the action 
and the sound of the A. U. M. is definitely related 
to the reception and the retention (as well as its 
release) of an impression. Here again we come 
upon a conceptual depth of the purpose of the A. 
U. M. mighty in potential purpose. 

There have been innumerable translations of the 
purpose of the A. U. M. and most of these have 

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THE LOST WORD 

been cast in occult mystery form. But, in my 
opinion the best translation of it is as "Creator 
(A)," "Sustainer (U)," and "Transmutor (M)." 
That is — this would appear to be its original pur- 
pose and for the following reasons. The creating 
element (as far as man's use of vocal expression is 
concerned) is an ability to set in motion physical 
sound from which is derived voice. The ability to 
set and to keep in motion physical sound true to its 
original purpose is the "sustaining" element with 
which man is to recognize activities with which he 
is to make his act and his thought intelligible. The 
"Transmutor" (the last of the act) is of the purely 
physical. The act necessary to produce voice (as 
above outlined) is beyond criticism. It describes 
human difficulties with a vivid insight as to what 
man is up against in his effort to release a spiritual 
fact behind his physical act. That the ancient Hin- 
doo was fully aware of every angle of the difficul- 
ties of articulating sound or voice, is to be especially 
noted in that the A. U. M. was sometimes translated 
as "Creator, Sustainer and Destroyer." In this 
translation we find remarkable evidence that he 
(the ancient Hindoo) was fully aware of conditions 
that would detain a spiritual fact behind its physi- 
cal articulation. Why our modern educators have 
not sensed the action necessary to a definite recep- 
tion, retention and release of the spiritual fact (im- 
bedded in an impression) behind its physical articu- 
lation is beyond comprehension. The only reason 
for it is the fact that they, too, are afflicted with 

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THE LOST WORD 

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii liiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu 

the very conditions described and which hinders a 
proper articulation of the A. U. M. 

The great game of life consists of the following 
essentials, namely : 

1. The question of creation — which consists of 
holding true to their purpose the physical and the 
spiritual articulating devices. 

2. The question of a sustaining element — which 
consists of holding true to its purpose the particular 
idiom employed to visualize the impression in mind. 

3. The question of interpretation (physical and 
spiritual transmutation) — holding these true to their 
purpose which is to translate the impression in mind 
as it is passed through the idioms employed. 

Besides this we have a three-fold right of articu- 
lation in our use of physical sound, or voice, 
namely: 

1. Both the physical and the spiritual articulat- 
ing devices. These being spontaneous in action are 
also one in texture and structure. This, of course, 
makes it extremely difficult, at times, to find and to 
articulate the distinctions necessary to freely release 
the spiritual fact behind the physical. 

2. The so-called vowel element which has never 
been thoroughly understood and which has always 
been considered, more or less, as an involuntary 
effort to find the sustaining element of vocalization. 

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II1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIW 



3. The so-called consonant element — which we 
may term purely physical, which also never has 
been fully understood. 



The first — represents the creating (the — A) in- 

2St. 

The second — represents the sustaining (the — U) 
erest. 

The third — represents the transmuting (the — 
M) interest. 



terest. 
Th 
interest 



The transmuting interest (the — M) has, how- 
ever, been reduced to such an extent that it has 
actually become a destroying element. Why we 
have not sensed the destructive element in its make- 
up, as used, is beyond comprehension. For it is 
evident in our every effort to set and sustain phy- 
sical sound in motion. It is evident in every effort 
we use to visualize the spiritual fact behind its ac- 
tion. Indeed we are completely surrounded by it 
and we cannot seem to escape its grip. As far as 
word forms will permit, it is best described as a 
sound form similar to "Ow — Oo — oo." We actually 
begin our use of physical sound, or voice, with this 
"Ow — Oo — oo." Upon it we vainly attempt to 
comprehend and release the impression in our 
mind. It is indeed a strange and altogether incom- 
prehensible sound for intelligent human beings to 
use. It has been so ingrained into our every effort 
to make our act and our thought intelligible 
that we actually are quite insensible of its im- 

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THE LOST WORD 

ii urn iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiii iiiiiiiiiiii minim imiiiiiiii iiimi mini"" """i iHinui mm mi i 

pious influence upon our expression in the game of 
life. Even with our abuse of voice (as above out- 
lined) it yet contains the Creator, Sustainer and 
Transmuter so ably described by the A. U. M. For 
instance it will be found upon strict analysis, that 
we begin our use of physical sound with a brilliant 
tang which is sustained just for a moment and 
which is then forced to take on the closed aspect of 
a hum. But this hum is caused by an act which 
deliberately crushes the spiritual fact between the 
jaws of muscular tension, nervous constriction and 
intellectual restriction. It is a replica of the action 
which is called the Destroying element by the an- 
cient Hindoo philosophers and thinkers. If our 
educators would discover the reason for the articu- 
lating difficulties of their students, they need look 
no further than to this "Destroying" element in our 
use of the hum, for it indicates with a certainty 
beyond question that the physical articulating de- 
vices are not minding the business of their purpose. 
With such conditions, it is impossible to appeal to 
a spiritual fact — be it ever so clearly stated and ad- 
judged safe, sane and sound. 

By Destroying element is meant the imposition 
of physical energy upon the delicate fabrication of 
the spiritual fact behind its vocal articulation. Here, 
in such an act (which we constantly perform) is an 
element of sufficient dimensions to prevent a spiri- 
tual vision that is true to its setting and purpose. Our 
educators have sought, in some instances, to over- 

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come its impious influence by burrowing deeper 
into muscular, nervous and intellectual tension. 
They have succeeded so wonderfully in this that it 
is now exceedingly difficult, at times, to detect the 
pure from the impure. If we carefully examine our 
own peculiar articulation of physical sound, or 
voice, the pertinent fact that the Hindoo philoso- 
phers' conception of the physical action necessary 
to release a spiritual fact is correct, immediately 
becomes apparent. In the brilliant tang which 
always precedes our effort to set in motion physical 
sound, or voice, there is imbedded a wonderful 
promise of articulating power. Although it be- 
speaks volumes of actual interest, it is literally 
crushed in an ungodly tension. It is, of course, 
nothing more nor less than a deliberate violation 
of the one and only "straight and narrow path" 
extant, which is — a perfect physical co-ordination 
and its action correlated with its spiritual concomi- 
tant. We have gripped the action and its sound 
muscularly. We then stupidly call the results that 
we obtain as of divine revelation. We seem not to 
sense that in such an act we have literally "Made 
Flesh" a spiritual fact, and that in so doing we lose 
sight of its original purity and excellence. If there 
ever was a tell-tale of human incompetency in ar- 
ticulation, it is here shown. Naming the M of the 
A. U. M. (as artciulated) the "Destroyer," was quite 
correct. All this states, however, is that there are 
few men who can definitely hold a sound-form of 
sufficient dimensions and sustaining influence in 

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vocal motion and over which they may reasonably 
release its content and its purpose to terms of physi- 
cal and spiritual expression. If we could ever find 
a rightful sustaining influence and interest in our 
use of vocal expression, and if we could ever find an 
act wherewith our impression could be held in vocal 
motion without coming upon this Destroying ele- 
ment, we would have at our command the full pur- 
pose of the so-called Lost Word. As a three-fold 
delineation of the articulating plight into which the 
individuals of the human race have been plunged, 
the analytical interest of the action necessary to 
produce the sound of the A. U. M. is unquestioned. 
It proves beyond a doubt the condition of the indi- 
viduals with whom we hold converse. Its delinea- 
tion of human difficulties of articulation is unspair- 
ing, as it reveals man just as he is and just as he 
does not want to be revealed. When we meet with 
this Destroying element in our friends and note the 
struggle they have with it, we usually consider it as 
a "funny sort of articulation" and let it go at that. 
The disturbance is, however, imbedded in every- 
thing our friends do and vocally state — physically 
and mentally. In our Public Schools, if the child is 
afflicted with a peculiarity of voice and its articula- 
tion, he is considered as a joke ; an unfortunate be- 
ing who helps the teacher pass away the time and 
towards is directed a humorous attitude of mind. 

The probable reason for our not having been 
able to uncover, unravel and unfold and use the 
brilliant tang which always accompanies our effort 

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to use voice, is due to our failure to recognize dis- 
tinctions between an impulse especially provided 
to perpetuate the human race physically, and an 
impulse especially provided to perpetuate the hu- 
man race spiritually. Without these distinctions at 
our command we automatically obey those im- 
pulses which we readily recognize. Without these 
distinctions at our command we automatically im- 
pel a physiogolical measure upon our spiritual 
sensibilities and potentialities. 

The articulation of the A. U. M. cannot be used 
in the manner in which some of our isms and cults 
use a so-called thought. We may hold a so-called 
thought so long in our mind that it becomes stale 
as it has been held to the exclusion, possibly, of the 
very element necessary to secure the thing we orig- 
inally had in mind. We cannot, by merely throw- 
ing out our shoulders, stilting our chests and grab- 
bing at every muscle and nerve, pronounce the 
sound of the A. U. M. Nature is not so crude as 
to permit it. It requires a definite recognition and 
use of the one and the only "straight and narrow 
path," which is — a perfect physical co-ordination 
and its action correlated with its spiritual concomi- 
tant. This and this alone will permit us to state in 
vocal motion our sense of the impression in mind — 
in all its original purity and excellence of fabrica- 
tion, and, without damage to either its physical or 

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its spiritual modes or idioms of expression. As this 
condition of body, spirit and soul would impel a 
normal physical and spiritual health upon the hu- 
man race, it is most unfortunate for anyone to state 
that it — being of pagan origin — is without the pale 
of intelligent consideration. The A. U. M. is all in- 
clusive. It was and still is a most brilliant analysis 
and statement of human rights of articulation boiled 
down to the minutest edge. Within its horizon it 
stands supreme. Its action demands a health stand- 
ard which few of those who state it is of pagan 
origin, can show. 

RESONANCE 

Man has, however, an articulating asset of vocal 
position whose intent is quite synonymous with the 
action necessary to produce the sound of the A. U. 
M. It is that which we commonly recognize as — 
resonance. We may be pardoned if we express 
satisfaction in stating that it is our belief that res- 
onance is far superior in every way to the action 
necessary to produce the sound of the A. U. M. 
As it is of an original placement of voice espe- 
cially provided for man to make his act and his 
thought intelligible we do not have to submit to any 
type of contortions (either of the physical or of the 
spiritual) to produce it. In our use of resonance 
( T 'f we rightly find and articulate it) we will uncover 
the real hearth-stone of the purpose of the A. U. M. 
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eliminates any danger of meeting with the Destroy- 
ing element mentioned above. It is for this reason 
I believe resonance to be superior to the A. U. M. 
and that this was what the ancient Hindoo sought. 

Resonance may be forged into a mighty volume. 

It may be forged into a thin stream — so far dis- 
tant in character that it passes the physical phases 
of voice, to the whispering element, to the formu- 
lating period and from thence to activities which 
alone are attached to the "still small voice." 

As a factor of human rights of vocal articulation 
and its influence upon mental states, resonance is a 
sort of soluble substance which may be made to 
take on any shape, any character and any form of 
energy, even to the most infinitesimal degree to 
which it may be directed. It would appear capable 
of searching the very heights of the universe, lay- 
ing hold of whatever was therein inscribed and plac- 
ing it before the human race in understandible 
terms. The fact that we are unable to hold voice 
true to its purpose, its original placement — on re- 
sonance — accounts for our failure to find, articulate 
and release a spiritual sensibility in its original 
purity and excellence. Without resonance we are 
unable to find what we term a continuous stream of 
sound, or voice. We are therefore unable to freely 
select the language idioms necessary to release the 
color-scheme of that which we have in mind or 

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which is imbedded in our impression. We are un- 
able to attend to the act of selection and to the act 
of thinking in their original setting and as asso- 
ciated with human rights of articulation. 

Resonance is the perpetual youth of voice— both 
in speech forms and in singing. It allows full play 
of the imaginative resources. It allows an unbound 
vision. It permits genius unrestrained. It is a 
ready help to initiative as it can only be produced 
by a perfectly poised physical mechanism. It per- 
mits the reception and the retention of a registra- 
tion of impression in due form. It dissipates all 
phantasms of mind. It is barely possible that the 
ancient "confusion of tongue" was wrought upon 
the people because they actually lacked a use of — 
resonance. 

Resonance is the most caustic critic man has. 
Nothing escapes its attention. No subterfuge, 
no illusion, nothing, in fact, escapes the essence of 
its purpose, nothing goes through (in its original 
purity and excellence) without passing the censor- 
ship of resonance. Why? Because it represents the 
original placement of voice wherewith man is to 
directly make his act and his thought intelligible. 
None of nature's laws respond to human initiative 
(to the full) without the resource upon which they 
live. When we fully arrive to its beginnings and 
have its action based upon harmonic order, it set- 
tles our difficulties in articulating physical 
sound, or voice, with an exactitude startling in its 

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simplicity. Every irregularity of muscle and nerve 
may be definitely determined — by our use of re- 
sonance. It is the "open sesame" to efficiency. De- 
liberation is a determinant of its use. Satisfaction, 
both physical and spiritual, is a handmaid of its 
action.. Clear vision is its concomitant. Clear- 
mindedness is also a concomitant of its action. In 
fact there is not an articulation of voice which will 
not readily release itself to resonance. It probes 
where language fails. It probes where science and 
philosophy fail. It delivers where religion fails of 
vision. The ecclesiastic has every reason to fear its 
action, for if it were ever applied to his mode and 
use of voice (and speech-forms) it would unmerci- 
fully show him up. 

It is vastly superior in fabrication to our present 
understanding of Vibratorial Activity, as it is 
directly associated with elements which are only 
to be found in human character. It also is asso- 
ciated with an infinity of infinitudes far above our 
most exalted readings of human possibilities. Of 
the physical it may be stated that there is nothing 
of its articulating of sound and its various positions, 
types, modes and color-schemes which resonance 
cannot legitimately handle and take care of in the 
most comprehensive way. The usual distressing 
difficulties of the consonant are readily overcome if 
we properly sense and articulate resonance. In its 
use man will inevitably find the MASTER WORD 
of universe. If he locates his spiritual sensibilities 
i-^nn it he is physically fit to proceed. He is then 

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physically and spiritually fit to receive an impres- 
sion decently and in order and retain and release 
its essence in all its original purity and excellence. 
He will then not have to fall back upon organic 
repetition to provide him with a memory, for he will 
be at all times physically and mentally alert. He 
will then be in position to recognize that voice, in 
its original attachment and manifold activities, 
actually represents an UNBROKEN ARTICU- 
LATING ROUTE between the physical and spirit- 
ual departments of man. 

He then is a FREE man. He has cleared his 
physical apparatus of its (otherwise unconscious) 
difficulties. He is physically safe, sane and sound 
and because of it the vaulted heavens are open to 
him. He is more than thrice welcome as he in no 
wise is impudently damaging the texture and 
structure of elements which have been especially 
provided that he may make his act and his thought 
intelligible. 

Resonance of the right type (and there are 
several types) is the nearest that man will ever get 
to the original intent and content of the so-called 
Lost Word. It is indeed, in itself, a splendid 
achievement, a stupendous focal-point of articulat- 
ing rights whose simplicity few attain successfully. 
The so-called Lost Word — was never lost. It has 
existed always. It was never properly located and 
sufficiently focused to do a reasonable service to 
the man who would articulate its full intent and 

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content. It represents man's right to the one and 
only "word'* ever released by the Creator of the 
universe wherewith man was to make intelligible 
his act and his so-called thought. That the in- 
dividuals of the human race have yet to reach its 
action and its province in due form is a sad com- 
mentary upon our educational institutions — both 
secular and religious. With it in action man would 
long ago have sensed and reached and articulated 
its essence as a supreme focal-point in which the 
activities of the universe (which exist that man may 
have life more abundantly) were especially focused 
and set in motion for man's benefit, pleasure and 
profit. 

THE MASTER WORD. 

Is there such an articulating interest as the 
Master Word? 

There most certainly is. But it is not a word 
in the usual sense of the term. It is rather a con- 
dition in which both the physical and the spiritual 
articulating devices are enabled to definitely mind 
the business of their purpose. 

We can hardly view the human organization 
(recognizing that it is the finest and most complete 
chemical laboratory in the universe) without con- 
sidering it as the sum-total of the substance of the 
universe. 

With its function complete at our command 
there is reason to suspect that there is a solution 

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of human articulating rights which would entirely 
encompass the purpose of the Creator on the earth 
and find our working relation to the universe as 
well. If, however, we seem to have failed to find 
the focal-point in which is vested the Master Word 
— it is due to two very good and even specific rea- 
sons, namely: 

1. We have no dependable reading and instruc- 
tion concerning physical health standards. 

2. We have no dependable reading and instruc- 
tion concerning spiritual health standards. 

These are facts which this 20th century's use of 
intelligence has to face. Upon these facts may be 
laid all human difficulties of expression — both of the 
physical and of the spiritual. 

That the three great focal-points of the human 
organization, viz., "chemicalization, assimilation 
and elimination" have not been sufficiently under- 
stood is evidenced by three disturbances of man's 
potentialities. These are: 

1. The teaching of Occult Science — which evi- 
dently did not perceive that the "terror on the 
threshold" was not spiritual but rather was a dis- 
organized physical action wrought upon the multi- 
tudes of the human race by an interference of the 
chemical rights of the physical body. 

2. The general failure of physical health 
amongst the masses. 

3. The general failure of spiritual health 
amongst the masses. 

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These difficulties are further amplified by the 
ecclesiastical world whose teachings prohibit man 
from investigating analytically anything and any 
condition of mind which would clear human ex- 
periences incident to that physical and spiritual 
health upon which the great game of life is based. 

Are there processes wherewith man may def- 
initely determine whether the individual with 
whom he holds converse has any sense of the intent 
and the content of the Master Word? 

There most assuredly are. But these are a 
revelation of man's present relation to the activities 
of the universe which the majority of us — especially 
those engaged in ecclesiastical doctrines of belief — 
would rather have remain concealed. However, as 
this revelation is not of human judgment, but is 
strictly of judgment based upon a perfect physical 
co-ordination and an action in harmony with spirit, 
none can hope to escape. The symptoms by which 
it may be noted are : 

1. Man is actually forced to begin his every 
vocal act upon a focal-point which approximates 
the essence of the Master Word — at least in its 
physical aspect. 

2. Man is actually forced to end his every vocal 
act upon a focal-point which approximates the es- 
sence of the Master Word — at least in its physical 
aspect. 

These two facts of the articulation of physical 
sound, or voice, indicate several focal-points to 

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which every man is the rightful heir— though he 
has never been in condition to exercise his rights. 
These are: 

1. A perfect physical co-ordination. 

2. A freedom of spiritual sensibilities which 
alone can be attained by a use of a perfect physical 
co-ordination. 

3. A free use of physical sound — from which 
we derive voice. 

4. The recognition of the distinctions which 
exist between voice and speech. 

5. A definite use of the action and the province 
of the "still small voice." 

These focal-points are absolutely essential to 
the great game of life and its living. Without these 
we are bound to become tangled, we are bound to 
confuse the physical impulse with an impulse whose 
origin is of a higher plane of motive interest. With- 
out these we are bound to become untrustworthy; 
unconsciously so, perhaps, but nevertheless so. 

With these focal-points at our command, how- 
ever, we may have considerable hope to become 
really human. Without these focal-points man has 
been compelled to fabricate his every sense of living 
rights upon a sustaining vocal influence which does 
not sustain nor does it release. With these focal- 
points at our command man has a right to believe 
he may at last eliminate racial tendencies which 
permit a massed (meaning limited) mental states. 

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He may at last hope to eliminate occult mysteries 
and its successors — the isms, cults, religions and 
ecclesiastical doctrines of belief whose basis of 
action is a confusion of the physical with the 
spiritual, which they have accepted as a divine reve- 
lation of the Lord of Creation. When man is able 
to definitely control these focal-points wherewith 
he is to find his rights of articulation to the full, he 
will then have brought down to the earth the old 
conception of heaven; a heaven so vast and so 
mighty in sensibilities that it is really worthy of the 
Creator of the universe. 

A man possessed with these focal-points is know- 
ingly using the physical instrument as a chemical 
laboratory which not alone is able to mind the 
business of its purpose but also gives its possessor 
a definite "cue" of his physical and spiritual sur- 
roundings. He does not therefore worry its work- 
ings with envy, anger, hatred, impetuosity, antici- 
pation and precipitation, or a thousand odd other 
torturous conditions for throwing it out of gear, 
out of harmonic alignment and making it impossible 
for it to give him a true "cue" to advantages with 
which he is normally surrounded. He is able to 
control his impulses — whether they be of a phys- 
ical or of the spiritual. He is in position to give 
each its proper place and to act accordingly. 
Whatever he states of his relation to the activities 
of the universe comes through the selected idioms of 
expression with an unmistakable evidence of vision 
far removed from any interference by the physical. 

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He knows the value of physical sound and knowing 
its limitations he does not attempt to load upon 
it any of the localized positions from which he de- 
rives the physical aspect of voice to release his 
sense of elements which enable him to translate 
voice into speech. He knows the exact focal-point 
upon which he produces resonance. He is therefore 
in position to reduce to a minimum the irritations 
which proceed from a wrong use of muscular 
and nervous tension. He knows that when he arti- 
culates his sensibilities upon what may be termed 
the grand focal-point he may search the eternity 
of the universe and get legitimate results. He uses 
it therefore knowing full well its power — either for 
destructive or constructive purpose. He thus is in 
position and in condition to definitely acquaint him- 
self with every element necessary to his well being. 
And further, he is in position and condition to pre- 
serve an impression in all its original purity and 
excellence. In his use of the articulating devices 
of his organiatzion he has found the rightful focal- 
point which definitely relates him to the activities 
of the universe and he finds that every element is 
ready to happily serve its original business which 
is — to assist him in recognizing and in using them 
that he may live and have life more abundantly. 

The physical aspect of the Master Word directly 
contradicts the old primitive idea of a "terror on 
the threshold." Indeed, it proves the so-called 

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"terror of the threshold" what it really is — an inter- 
ference with the chemical properties which the 
human organization is vested. The conditions 
necessary to the physical aspect of the Master Word 
as above outlined actually foretell an original 
right of articulation vast in intensive and extensive 
proportions. They foretell a condition of articula- 
tion which includes every possible word. As such, 
they foretell man's right to a soluble substance in 
point of rights of articulation immense in design 
and wonderfully powerful in utterance. These con- 
ditions are derived from a focal-point which enables 
man to graduate his action according to his every 
necessity. This focal-point is ever ready for service 
and it willingly assumes any shape and position and 
any designated place in the activities of the universe 
in which its energy is sent. It is the finest kind of 
mark of recognition as it reveals man just as he is 
and just as he does not want to be revealed. Mostly 
it permits a true visualization of the impression in 
mind, as the impression comes through all phases 
of vocal action imposed upon it remaining true to 
its original purity and excellence. It is man's sen- 
sibility of the one and only great sound-form of the 
universe which apparently was especially designed 
that he (man) might make his act and his thought 
intelligible. It is first of the physical, but it passes 
the variable positions of man's use of physical 
sound to the whsipering element, on to the formu- 
lating period, and from thence to the "still small 
voice," without damaging the delicate fabrication 

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of its increasing function. It is simple in design and 
function. At first, it would appear silly to give it 
such an exalted title — as the physical aspect of the 
Master Word of the universe — yet this is exactly 
what it is. 

Physically — the Master Word of the universe, is 
— resonance. 

It is typical of the simplicity of the universe in 
general. Without a use of resonance (of the right 
type and placement) man cannot hope to get phy- 
sically in condition to sense, let alone release, a 
spiritual fact. However, the majority of the human 
race have so long been taught to hunt for a but- 
ton-like contrivance with which they may turn on 
the immortal fluids of the game of life and its living 
that they will immediately protest the above state- 
ment. Of course, in its very simplicity, man is 
enabled to reach the very essence of the great focal- 
point of the universe with which he is to play the 
game of life and its living. But when he permits 
himself to be robbed of its simplicity he is auto- 
matically disposed of that focal-point wherewith he 
was originally to make his act and his thought in- 
telligible. 

The Master Word responds to no other than — a 
perfectly balanced and co-ordinated articulation of 
the physical mechanism. It has, of course, many 
imitations, some of them so nearly like the real that 
it is difficult at times to detect the real from the 
unreal. When uttered, however, there is an element 
in the real which is clearly outlined, as it speaks a 

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depth of conviction and vision far removed from any 
physical interference and limitations. It has im- 
bedded in • it a trustworthy hopefulness which 
visualizes the spiritual fact which it reveals. It 
speaks experiences rightly received, rightly retained 
and rightly released. It is fortunately an element 
of vocalization which all individuals possess. It has 
always existed. It existed long before man appeared 
on the scene to mar and to despoil human interests 
of impression, rights of expression and appreciation, 
it existed long before Occult Science gained the 
confidence of the human race at large and imposed 
its countless vagaries of human rights upon an un- 
suspecting public as of divine revelation. 

The man possessed of even the physical aspect 
of the Master Word — the great "blue," no longer 
holds — a forbidding mystery. It no longer is an 
unfathomable and terrifying mystery; for the man 
possessing it is working in the very substance 
which sways the universe. From it he gathers 
impressions whose delicate virile strength and depth 
of attachment which speaks of distances of rights of 
articulation far beyond the wildest dreams of civi- 
lization. He receives impressions which no articu- 
lating device of the physical can adequately release, 
even though he call to his aid all the mechanical 
skill and genius of human might and power — as it 
now exists. While his experiences are the coveted 
goal of all this endeavor his endeavor is not to recall 
the past, but is born of an inspiration centered in 
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ceives both insight and foresight, which enable him 
to sense the direction from which he came and to 
which he proceeds. It enables its possessor to know 
the results of massing mental states around and 
upon national influences and tendencies. 

But, what a stupendous hopefulness lies within 
its horizon and function! 

What an immense privilege of rights of articu- 
lation exists in the activities of the universe when 
they are rightly opened to vision, just above the 
physical ! 

A man possessing at least the physical aspect 
of the Master Word of the universe will be able to 
bring the mighty confluence of the activities of the 
universe directly to a focal-point from which he may 
determine his origin, the conditions necessary to a 
successful conduct of the game of life which he is 
privileged to play during his period of time on this 
Good Old Mother Earth and with which he is to 
build the mental states upon which rests his sense 
of the Kingdom of Individuality. He is playing the 
game of life beyond the "arc" of the physical 
and he is playing it in such a manner that the phy- 
sical no longer holds any chemical terrors for him. 
He is extending his "arc" of consciousness into the 
spiritual realms of the universe, uncovering, un- 
raveling and unfolding its activities according to 
its original intent. 

The Master Word is a condition of body, spirit 
and soul which will remove man from his present 
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powers of God. It will introduce man to the real- 
ities of life — both physical and spiritual. The results 
will enable its possessor to include in his act and 
thought the original depth and purpose of the Cre- 
ator of the universe. A condition of body in which 
every element of the universe is taken up and made 
to perform service for humanity will ensue. A con- 
dition in which its possessor is fully aware of its 
original attachment and in which he fully realizes 
the responsibility attached to the uses to which it 
may be put. 

After primitive man found voice, after his de- 
scendants classified vocal grunts of appreciation into 
letter, syllable, word and sentence forms, after the 
tribes grew so large that they separated, spreading 
over the earth, and formed camps, lodges, states and 
nations — the letter, syllable, word and even sen- 
tence forms changed because of a difference in a use 
of muscle, nerve and the influence which these 
changes imposed upon vision. Our use of expres- 
sion has been undergoing a change ever since. The 
chief difficulty with our use of physical sound and 
the physical action necessary to produce it has been 
that man has always chased a spiritual fact muscu- 
larly, and has never realized that his use of muscle, 
nerve (and its subsequent imposition of limitation) 
was disastrous to the spiritual fact behind its phy- 
sical expression. 

There are three great facts which pertinently 
concern what has been termed the Lost Word. 
These are: 

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1. Physically — life is a gift, derived from the 
countless ages of Nature's time and effort to pro- 
duce a perfectly balanced individual unit capable of 
sensing and of articulating rights of impression and 
expression especially released to three distinct 
planes — the physical, the spiritual (or mental), and 
the psychical. 

2. Spiritually, life is a privilege wholly vested in 
what we term mental states. It seems especially 
created that man might get in touch with activities 
of the universe which do not ordinarily appear in 
the physical. 

3. Psychically, life is attached to heights which, 
under the circumstances with which we have had 
our mental states opened, we can only dimly sense, 
now and then. But that it promises interests be- 
yond our most exalted expectations is unquestioned. 

The first, the physical, is the focal-point to which 
the second, the spiritual (or mental) has been re- 
leased. The second in combination with the first, 
is the focal-point to which the third, the psychical, 
has been released. 

Fortunately for the human race, these are facts 
which are not derived from Occult Science, nor from 
its successors — the isms, cults, religions and ecclesi- 
astical doctrines of belief. It is an unquestioned 
scientific fact that these are based upon detail work 
which was wrongly postulated and therefore wrong- 
ly worked out. And that man was therefore sent to 
tangents which, even in this clever 20th century, 
he has yet to overcome. 

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Fortunately for the human race these are facts 
which are derived from interests recorded in these 
activities of the universe which do not ordinarily 
appear in the physical. They are facts which even 
primitive man in all his dulled and unawakened 
rights of articulation sensed — perhaps not in detail, 
but as they are of an original fabrication he could 
hardly avoid them. They are therefore not of divine 
revelation as we commonly understand the term — 
except in the sense that they are of those activities 
of the universe which do not ordinarily appear in 
the physical, and which were therefore released to 
man that he might make his act and his thought 
intelligible — in a mental equivalent of his physical 
act. 

The use of these activities proves that another 
life, separate and apart from the physical, actually 
exists. Indeed, this is so apparent to an observing 
intelligence, they hold no interest when compared 
to the third element of human nature which we call 
the soul. 

That man represents power — is unquestioned. 
That he has abused his gift of power is also un- 
questioned. It is generally recognized that he has 
turned what sense of power he has upon his fellows 
rather than upon the activities of the universe where 
he might have more fully accomplished the purpose 
of the game of life and its living. It is first to be 
noted in the "boss" of the ancient camp. Here his 
sense of power was crudely expressed by physical 
strength and prowess. From the camp the boss 

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idea was shifted to the clan. From the clan it was 
shifted to the tribe. From the tribe it became an 
elective interest in the state and nation. The de- 
scendants of primitive man however did not find a 
full satisfaction, and so the boss idea was shifted 
to a place in the clouds — later called heaven. In the 
place in the clouds there was impelled upon its 
heaven the "closed shop" idea. And this proved to 
be the greatest deterrent to man's successful con- 
duct of the game of life ever enunciated. Accord- 
ing to human history is not primitive man to be 
congratulated ! He could match strength to strength 
with anyone opposing him. He could even exercise 
the recall upon his boss. His boss had ever to be 
around — to defend his right to the throne. He had 
ever to be around that his vasals could keep tab on 
him. He, of course, was always in danger of being 
unseated if he did not behave as a real boss ought. 
I mean by the above that our conception of the 
Creator is crude, cheap, shabby and thoroughly 
out of sympathy with the power of the Creator as 
expressed in the building of the earth, all it contains 
and with which it is surrounded — for the benefit, 
pleasure and profit of that individual unit whom 
we call man. In fact the building of the earth 
means opportunity for man to accomplish the pur- 
pose of the Master Mind behind its creation. And 
that he (man) has missed gathering to himself this 
opportunity is because he has never (apparently) 
been properly related to those activities of the uni- 
verse which do not ordinarily appear in the physical, 

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but which exist that he might find life more abun- 
dantly. 

Throughout the ages a word of words was 
sought. Every ism, cult, religion and ecclesias- 
tical doctrine of belief that was strong enough to 
impell its will upon the multitudes had its favorite 
word of words and its favorite legerdemanic trick 
to create and maintain its particular mode of expres- 
sion against all comers. Man has never had appar- 
ently a just, true and sane measure of human power 
— as expressed in those activities of the universe 
which were especially released that he might make 
his act and his thought intelligible. That is, he has 
never been able apparently to sense and to articu- 
late his right to the game of life upon the focal- 
point provided for that purpose, and with which he 
might legitimately connect himself with the pur- 
pose of life and its living. 

However, upon strict analysis, free from the 
usual theories (and if I dare undertake such a task), 
we will find that some very curious, even pertinent, 
reasons for such an unfortunate situation in which 
man finds himself. We will find that some very 
curious and impudent types of action have been 
shunted upon the human race. And usually they 
are quite foreign to the original right of impression 
and expression — with which man is to make his 
act and his thought intelligible. 

Fortunately for the human race the gift of life 
and its privileges, especially released to man's men- 
tal equivalent, is every man's original right. For- 

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tunately, too, it now appears as the especial busi- 
ness of this 20th century's inteligence to see to it 
that every man, black, white, yellow and brown, 
receives a full measure of the conditions necessary 
to attain and to articulate those activities of the uni- 
verse which do not ordinarily appear in the physi- 
cal, and which have been especially reserved for 
man to use, via the mental equivalent of his physi- 
cal act. 

It is only when man can release the gift and the 
privilege of life to every individual unit that he can 
hope to rest secure from moral thieves. It is only 
when he can do this that he can rest secure in a real 
"Peace, good will to all men" — an active endeavor 
which will permit a peaceful occupation of the great 
game of life and its living, the world over. 



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Voice, primarily, is physical sound — minus to- 
nality. 

Speech, is Voice — plus tonality. 

Thinking automatically, becomes a simple act 
when we associate the physical act with spirit, and 
have the forces of each at our command. 



Besides the statements made as to man's posi- 
tion in the universe and as to his being a final ex- 
expression of the purpose of the Creator upon the 
earth, there are other elements which corroborate 
the same. For instance: 

The first element of expression (as far as man 
individually is concerned), is — physical sound. 

The second element of expression (as found in 
the uses to which physical sound may be put), is — 
Voice. 

The third element of expression (as found in 
the possibilities of voice), is that which we for 
ages have recognized as the "still small voice." 

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With the third statement in mind it may be 
stated as an unquestioned scientific fact that voice, 
in its original placement and manifold activities 
actually represents an UNBROKEN ARTICU- 
LATING ROUTE between the physical and men- 
tal (or spiritual) departments of man. This means 
that nothing of the universe is or has been purpose- 
fully hidden. It means that every necessary in- 
scription has been placed along this unbroken ar- 
ticulating route. And that all men has to do is to 
read and digest while he runs the course of life. 

It is therefore most astonishing that after the 
ages of time and experiences man has to confess he 
actually DOES NOT KNOW the simple elements 
of Voice with which he is to accomplish the pur- 
pose of the game of life and its living. It is aston- 
ishing, too, that men have apparently so little in- 
terest in voice, other than just enough use of it to 
enable them to carry on their business affairs. It 
is astonishing that, although big business considers 
it essential to the success of its affairs to see to it 
that every member of its sales force gets a complete 
and minute account of the goods they are to sell, 
there is little attention given to the manner in 
which it is vocally given publicity. The salesman 
is sent out without question as to his use of voice ; 
whether his manner of its articulation is offensive 
to the color-scheme that is so essential to good 
salesmanship. The send him out to do business 
without questioning whether he has vocal convic- 
tion or vocal honesty. 

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Voice, however, represents a right of articulation 
vast in depth, potential measure and attachment. 
Civilization is actually dependent upon a right use 
of it. A reasonable reading of human power is im- 
possible without a scientific use of voice. A reason- 
able reading of the power of God is impossible with- 
out a scientific use of voice — as in its use man deals 
with forces of the universe which were especially 
designed that he might make his act and his thought 
intelligible. Without a full comprehension of voice 
and its working relation to the problems of life, 
man is automatically consigned to a helplessness of 
action depriving him of those distinctions which are 
necessary to the game of life. My right to make 
such a statement is in the fact that with voice, man 
opens and forges his mental equivalent, the place 
where vision is revealed and released. 

Man is, of course, aware that there is a distinc- 
tion between the physical and its mental equivalent 
and that he actually is dependent upon it to carry 
on a successful conduct of the great game of life 
and its living. Indeed, he calls himself an astute 
business man if he can beat his fellows to a use of 
the distinctions which he senses but which he can- 
not entirely account for. He is aware that his read- 
ings of human potentiality rest upon his ability to 
exercise this distinction, but unfortunately for him, 
he has no legitimate measure for it, so he is not at 
all sure of his readings of those potentialities which 
he thinks he has unearthed. He is likewise aware, 
uncomfortably so at times, that his reading of the 

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potentialities of God also rest upon his ability to 
clearly sense and articulate this distinction. And 
although this would seem a most vital interest to 
him he cannot claim an accurate and dependable 
reading. Upon this subject he is extremely sensi- 
tive and touchy. In some instances any question 
as to the accuracy of his reading arouses a most bit- 
ter and intense denunciation of his questioner. And 
he would, for he has been taught that he alone was 
of the chosen of God, — and therefore a privileged 
character — visit a form of frightfulness upon those 
who dared disagree with him which the Hun, in all 
his recent barbarous and unhuman doings could 
hardly equal. Yet neither he nor his ecclesiastical 
teacher (from who he gets his information) — al- 
though both are dependent upon an ability to exer- 
cise the distinction for a clear vision and action of 
the power of man and of God, gives any evidence of 
them. Fortunately for the human race Nature is 
just. In spite of the abuse to which human rights 
of impression and expression have been put, there 
yet exist a series of protective interests which no 
man or institution has been entirely able to obliter- 
ate. And they will in due time force a more whole- 
some reading of human power as well as of the 
power of God. It is a severe reproach upon our 
educational institutions, both secular and religious, 
that they have not more fully understood and ap- 
plied voice and its distinctions as a protective in- 
terest to impression and expression. 

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A further right to make the statements concern- 
ing the distinction between voice and speech, and 
the simplicity of thinking — is to be found in the 
following, namely : 

The first element of voice, is — a physical sensi- 
bility of sound. 

The second element of voice, is — a spiritual sensi- 
bility of sound. 

What a third element of voice may contain is an 
untold quantity and quality. But that it is attached 
to the far distant realms of the universe is unques- 
tioned. That there are both physical and mental 
conceptions of voice is a declaration that man is 
actually working on two separate planes. And they 
represent activities which clearly corroborate voice 
as an UNBROKEN ARTICULATING ROUTE 
between the physical and the mental (or spiritual) 
departments of man. Yet in spite of the evidence 
wherewith this may be accomplished, there exists 
in the usual school of thought, a strange and almost 
impenetrable silence, ominous and uncanny in as- 
pect, concerning the origin, function and uses to 
which the privileges of expression, via voice and its 
distinctions, has been and may be put. 

We are all conscious that we have been plunged 
into a most colossal and even impudent artificial use 
of physical sound, or voice. We are quite sensible 
of the fact that we are not getting a reasonable 

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service from our use of it. But even with this star- 
ing us in the face, we hesitate to dig too closely 
at its present foundations, for fear we may uncover 
some very pertinent and nasty facts which we would 
rather not have revealed. We have, too, a deep- 
seated sense that we cannot entirely blame our lack 
of a reasonable service of voice to physical sound, 
for we are somehow aware that it would automat- 
ically obey, respond to and even embody the con- 
tent of out thought IF,— but the IF is the trouble. 
We also sense that we cannot entirely blame it to 
the articulating devices, either physical or mental, 
of man. For here again we sense somehow that 
these would automatically mind the business of 
their purpose. And so we are at a loss to account 
for a deep-seated distrust which has been forced 
upon the human race. We therefore plunge along 
as best we may, hoping that some fine day the 
clouds will lift at least long enough to enable us to 
decently hold converse with ourselves, our fellows 
and our God. 

There are two phases of our use of physical 
sound from which we derive voice. These are: 

1. The sound itself. 

2. The content of the sound and the uses to 
which it may be put. 

The one, the sound itself, is usually a grunt of 
vocal appreciation which responds to an impulse by 

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virtue of an original association of purpose between 
physical and mental states. Its action belongs to 
the protective interests which surround man. The 
other, the mental equivalent, belongs to human voli- 
tion. It is all right to sense and make use of those 
activities of the universe which do not ordinarily 
appear in the physical. It is intimately associated 
with the silent, powerful impellent. I further be- 
lieve that it is associated with elements of the uni- 
verse not found in the usual routine of the game of 
life as we know it. 

Unfortunately it has to be stated that the phy- 
sical has dominated our sense of sound, or voice, and 
this is the exact reverse of the original purpose of 
sound-forms from which we derive voice, and from 
which we get our mental equivalent of the physical ; 
that upon which is to rest our identity as a unit of 
the earth and of the universe. For instance and as 
showing the influence of the physical conditions 
under which sound, or voice, became an asset to the 
human race, and as showing the reasons for the long 
struggle to clear the mental equivalent of the physi- 
cal act, we may note the positions from which 
sound, or voice, — man's use of vocal grunts of ap- 
preciation — as proceeding from the following posi- 
tions: 

1. Sound is first produced at the loins. It is 
purely physical in its origin and in its effect upon 
any sense of the silent, powerful impellent in which 

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is imbedded a spiritual sensibility. It permeates or 
rather saturates every spiritual sensibility with its 
emboweled position. However, as man gradually 
refines his character — or nature as it is sometimes 
termed, he is able to sense the variations of its ele- 
ments and gradually the placement of sound, or 
voice, may be noticed rising to the following posi- 
tions, namely: 

2. It rises next to be located at the abdominal 
regions. 

3. It rises next to the diaphragm. 

4. It rises next to the lower chest. 

5. It rises next to the upper chest. 

6. It rises next to the back of the throat and the 
head. 

7. It rises next to the upper part of the head 
and to the front of the mouth. 

At this position it has stuck for generations, 
unconsciously (as far as the average individual is 
concerned) exerting its impious influence upon 
every spiritual sensibility to which man is rightful 
heir. 

In his struggle to more clearly articulate spirit, 
man has tabulated and formulated the sounds he 
was able to produce into what is known as the 
musical scale. In the construction of the musical 
scale he found much help in the mechanical instru- 
ment, as with it he was able to find and use har- 

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monies which he otherwise (perhaps) would have 
been unable to sense. 

The chief interest of the musical scale, however, 
is that it helped him to realize that he had access 
to note-positions of his own vocal apparatus, note- 
positions which he ordinarily did not consciously 
use. But in which he had access to vocal action 
which would answer his intensity of purpose suffi- 
cient in range to enable him to visualize his deepest 
seated impulse. Indeed, he was to find in the musi- 
cal scale a use of voice which would enable him to 
sense and to articulate the most (otherwise) obscure 
of his so-called emotions. I believe it an impera- 
tive therefore that every man know his note-posi- 
tion, not that its name would be of any particular 
value, but that he would be in position to call upon 
the type of energy associated with it and therefore 
best suited to answer the impulse behind it. I be- 
lieve it an imperative that every man know and have 
possession of that which is termed in musical circles 
"positive pitch," and with it an ability to imme- 
diately name the note-position of the scale used in 
voice. The reason for it being that in our effort to 
find a mental equivalent of the physical act, we also 
find and exercise the game of life and its living upon 
a sure vocal foundation, a foundation upon which 
is to rest our power of impression and expression. 
The majority of the human race go through life 
casually, sometimes hysterically, responding to an 
impulse, the origin of which they know little, and 

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the means wherewith they might more legitimately 
respond to and make use of it, they know less. 

By virtue of physical co-ordination and an ac- 
tion in harmony with spirit, man ought to find it 
possible to use every note-position of the scale 
which his vocal apparatus is capable of producing. 
He ought to have instantaneous command and re- 
sponse from the complete range of vocalizaiton 
which is his by right of the size and texture of his 
vocal apparatus. But although he constantly hears 
the scale and its note visualized, although these 
actually represent a range of intensity of purpose 
which he feels is his and that he could release his 
sensibilities upon them — he cannot use them. For 
some unknown reason (to him) he has limited him- 
self to 3, 4, 5, perhaps 6 note-positions of his right 
of vocalization. 

It is a fact that from the time of primitive man 
and his use of vocal grunts of appreciation, from the 
time his descendents classified these vocal grunts 
of appreciation into what we term language forms 
and from thence on, man has subjected his every 
sensibility to the dominating influence of localized 
physical positions from which he derived voice and 
his sense of the silent, powerful impellent. Upon 
the results he obtained from these positions he has 
based his use of sound-forms and his use of letter, 
syllable, word and sentence forms. All his busi- 
ness interests, his social life, his sense of morals 
and responsibility as a unit of civilization and of 
the universe, has been released over these physical 

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positions from whence he derived sound, or voice, 
and upon these few note-positions of the musical 
scale. All his sense of consciousness, will-power, 
self-control, self-reliance and his right to definitely 
associate his physical act with spirit, must be regu- 
lated and formulated and released upon these few 
note-positions of the scale. He is slowly but surely 
strangling himself. He is making it more and more 
difficult to find an impulse of sufficient dimension 
and strength to answer and release the purpose of 
the silent, powerful impellent. He is automatically 
building an artificial wall around himself. He is 
automatically denying himself the definite right to 
sense and to use the color-scheme of those activi- 
ties of the universe which do not ordinarily appear 
in the physical, but with which he is to give "tone" 
to his use of sound-forms. The damage done to the 
physical and mental states of man is enormous. Its 
influence upon health — physical, mental, spiritual, in- 
tellectual and psychical health — is beyond our usual 
comprehension. In the physical he has not the 
elasticity of action which an impulse ordinarily de- 
mands. In the mental and the spiritual he faces a 
hesitancy (born of a failure of the physical to act 
siumultaneously with spirit) which is fatal to the 
complete reception, retention and release (via vocal 
motion) of an impression and its expression. There 
is a feeling of oppression, subtle in texture, which 
invades a right of physical action — which ought to 
be cogent with spirit. To attempt to find its cause 
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physical technic, as applied to vocal dissabilities, is 
futile. 

While in such a plight of articulation man can- 
not find and articulate a harmonically balanced use 
of sound-forms. Indeed he is hard pressed to know 
the purpose of a sound-form. He cannot even find 
and articulate a use of letter, syllable, word and 
sentence forms and harmonize them with his use of 
sound-forms. He cannot find and articulate a word 
proportion in the construction and use of sentence 
forms, for the harmonic scintilations of sound-forms, 
letter, syllable, word and sentence forms are smoth- 
ered because he inevitably has to fall back upon 
physical accentuation. But far and above these 
facts, he has no actual grip upon those activities of 
the universe which do not ordinarily appear in the 
physical and which have been particularly reserved 
for his mental states, an action wrought to his use 
by the "still small voice." In other words, in con- 
fining himself to a few note-positions of the scale 
and of his vocal apparatus, he has not sufficient 
vocal space to sense and to release the energy neces- 
sary to the impression he has in mind. He therefore 
automatically overpowers a right of impression and 
expression by the limited vocal space he has at his 
command. Is it any wonder that the majority of 
the human race fail to find visual evidence of life 
after physical death? Do we need to further search 
for reasons why we, as a human race, lack in vocal 
conviction and vocal honesty? Do we not find in 
this reasons why fully ninety-five per cent of the 
human race are vocally deficient. 

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THE BREAK IN THE VOICE. 

It seems strange that, although we find contin- 
uity an ever present factor in the activities of the 
universe, man is without a continuous vocal scale 
of sufficient dimensions to definitely respond to and 
answer his every impulse. And with no better rea- 
son than an apparent "pure cussedness of inanimate 
objects" — if we care to consider muscle, nerve and 
even intellect in that light. I mean by this that 
man is unable to immediately respond to his inten- 
sity of purpose ; that he has to pull himself together 
before he can respond to his impulse. I believe that 
he is in this plight of articulation because he does 
not know and therefore does not use the full range 
of voice which is his by right of the type, size and 
texture of his vocal apparatus. As he is unable to 
fully express thereupon, these facts seem ample 
proof that he is in need of protective interests other 
than those he receives from art, politics and re- 
ligion. It is further proven in the fact that the 
majority of the human race are unable to handle, 
let alone sense, the mightiest of focal-points of all — 
a right to sense and to translate an impression in 
all its original purity and excellence of purpose — to 
terms of mental and physical expression. And with- 
out damage to its original texture and without dam- 
age to the idioms through which it is passed. 

It seems strange that, although everything me- 
chanically is in order, man cannot use what is 
termed the "one-position" vocal scale. That is, he 

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is unable to readily use every note-position which 
he is capable of producing. 

The conditions above described produce what is 
known as the break in the voice, a vocal situation 
which has a most impious influence upon vision, a 
vocal situation which has denied to man a right of 
harmonic increase. The result of it has been to 
send man to tangents, producing what is known as 
the specialist. And a specialist is a man who fol- 
lows a tangent to the exclusion of the very essen- 
tials, sometimes, which would give him a broader 
vision. The above conditions produce a very cur- 
ious state of action. For instance: 



In conscious states, the break in the voice finds 
its equivalent in a necessity to hang an encyclopedic 
dictionary on every spoken and written word. 

In the exercise of will-power, it finds its equiva- 
lent in the dependent attitude of mind of the major- 
ity of the human race. 

In speech, it finds its equivalent in a limited 
range of voice, or use of sound-forms. 

In literature, it finds its equivalent in the "gaps," 
the "paddings," the spots that are merely filled in— 
a necessity which rises, no doubt, from the lost mo- 
tion of an original impulse in its technical transla- 
tion. 

In painting, it finds its equivalent in the mean- 
ingless use of color, just to obtain the necessary 
contrast. 

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In the composition of music, it finds its equiva- 
lent in the meaningless repetition of theme. 

In art circles (inclusive), it finds its equivalent 
in the "artistic temperament." 

In theological interests, it finds its equivalent in 
creed and dogma, and the placing of the "closed 
shop" idea upon heaven. 

In human affairs in general, it finds its equiva- 
lent in an indifference which is shown by the ma- 
jority of the human race in grasping and in safe- 
guarding the essentials which make up the great 
game of life and its living. 

All it means, however, is that the "flow", the 
"lilt" — those conditions of physical, mental, spirit- 
ual, intellectual and psychical interests of human 
rights of impression and expression, and which 
would enable man to seek what may be termed in- 
tuition, has been lost sight of as an active force con- 
cerning human power. It means further, that man 
has muscularized his every act and consequently 
has placed a restriciton upon vision, via mental 
states. He has therefore limited himself to the 
physical and has not a clear purposeful mental 
equivalent of the physical act upon which is to rest 
his identity as a unit of the earth and of the uni- 
verse. 

Man's birthright is the GENIUS OF NATURE. 

The GENIUS OF NATURE is released to man 
upon — a perfect physical co-ordination. It is piti- 
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the fact that its peoples are deficient in a use of the 
GENIUS OF NATURE which has so wonderfully 
been transfered to the human organization to be- 
come the GENIUS OF MAN— a gift and a privi- 
lege especially released for the benefit, pleasure and 
profit of man. The result is, man — because he has 
not sufficient command of the action vested in his 
mental equivalent — plays the great game of life and 
its living upon fleeting fancies of mind. Proof of it 
is to be found in the fact that we accept the state- 
ment that some are inclined this or that — meaning 
literally that the life-stream has been "set" in a 
groove. But as all phases of life proceed from the 
whole design — indicating that man is heir to it in 
its composite form — we hardly dare assume that the 
GENIUS OF NATURE has not been transferred 
to the human organization to become the GENIUS 
OF MAN. 

But — thanks be ! Now, in this 20th century, we 
have considerable hope and quite some prospect 
that we may at last completely accomplish the 
original placement of voice. With it we may defi- 
nitely and scientifically get in touch with those ac- 
tivities of the universe which ordinarily do not ap- 
pear in the physical, but which are associated with 
mental states. This placement is entirely free from 
the physical. It is directly associated with the air- 
blanket which surrounds the earth and from which 
we derive sound, or voice. Being associated with 
mental states it is direct contact with the purpose 

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of the silent, powerful impellent. It is therefore 
directly associated with what has been termed the 
spiritual nature of the universe. It is a position 
with which voice may be generated free from phy- 
sical dominition and influence. With it in action 
man may keep tab on the harmonic scintilations 
and may, if he uses it rightly, here and there, and 
indeed wherever he may direct his impulse in the 
vast realms of the universe. When man finally ac- 
complishes this original placement of voice, the 
whole fabric of civilization will automatically un- 
dergo a complete change for the better. For it 
will be generally observed that no man can suc- 
cessfully hide behind his use of sound, or voice, 
and that he is a direct result of spiritual sensibili- 
ties which alone are attained by attention to the 
focal-points which exist that he (man) may find 
life more abundantly. Man will then attain a more 
reasonable reading of human potentiality. He will 
attain a more wholesome and reasonable reading 
of the power of God, and this will be a blessing of 
real proportions. For man will then give a more 
reasonable interest to his use of sound-forms as 
well as to his use of letter, syllable, word and sen- 
tence forms. 

PRIMITIVE MAN. 

A short review of the historic origin of voice may 
help me to prove the statements previously made. 
It may help us to realize why we have voice — minus 
tonality, instead of voice — plus tonality. 

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Far back beyond the time of the earliest human 
record, an individual (primitive man) stood before 
the universe. He had been invested with every 
necessary articulating requirement for making his 
act and his thought intelligible. He actually repre- 
sented the great line of demarcation between the 
physical and spiritual departments of the universe 
—the two great worlds in which are manifested the 
purpose of the Creator. 

It would be absurd therefore to think for a 
moment that he (primitive man) was not the re- 
cipient of registrations of impression — the same in 
quantity and quality as those registered upon the 
most learned and cultured gentleman of this clever 
20th century. But, of course, he — primitive man 
— was not aware of his investitution. He, even in 
his crudeness, actually represented the one and 
only individual capable of articulating upon these 
two great worlds, the physical and the mental, or 
spiritual. He was the one and only individual 
capable (by right of an original investitution) of 
giving a full and complete account and interpreta- 
tion of the great game of life and its living. He 
stood, even in his crude primitive nature, as the one 
and only representative of the purpose of the Cre- 
ator in and upon the earth. But all he could appar- 
ently do was to madly rush hither and thither 
wildly gesticulating to escape, if he could, an un- 
explained and thoroughly mystifying (to him) in- 
fluence which doggedly stalked his every physical 
motion. As far as his moods were concerned they 

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were elements which he blindly obeyed, as he did 
not understand them nor their purpose. He was 
totally indifferent to his original investitution ex- 
cept that it constituted in itself a very bothersome 
influence which mocked his every endeavor. He 
was, however, the finished product of Nature's 
effort to produce a perfectly balanced individual 
organization capable of giving expression to the 
purpose of the great game of life and its living. 
And, as such, he was surrounded with unlimited 
evidence that he had not been left helpless before 
the universe — a victim of its automatic precision. 
Every activity of the universe had been bent in his 
direction that he might awaken and unfold a true 
working relation to those forces with which he had 
been surrounded. Impressions by the countless 
billions were constantly registered upon him to 
awaken him to his rights. He was to prove his 
right to individual initiative, and this was so pre- 
cious in the sight of the Master Builder that even 
He would not interfere with its potentiality by 
building a man full sized, able to read, write and 
work out arithmatical problems. His every physi- 
cal move therefore foreshadowed a possibility of 
another sort, for wherever he went and whatever 
he did he was preceded and followed by a silent, 
powerful impellent which faithfully marked his 
every awakening sense of his original investitution. 
In part (as far as his capacity of voice was con- 
cerned) the purpose of the silent, powerful impel- 
lent was released to him by vocal grunts of appre- 

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ciation. The persistence of these vocal grunts of 
appreciation forced him to consider them at least 
as a very annoying element — and it was quite in 
keeping with his ignorance that he should finally 
consider them as a mysterious influence, a sort of 
stranger-voice of mystifying proportions. But they 
actually represented elements of expression other 
than his physical motions. They actually repre- 
sented the other great world in which he was to 
find material with which to establish his identity. 
In them, besides an annoying stranger-voice, there 
was imbedded processes of action which would re- 
lease the purpose of the silent, powerful impellent. 
It was up to him to prove his right to its purpose by 
opening in due form a use of physical sound — from 
whence he was to derive voice. It was up to him 
to open a right use of physical sound that he might 
associate it with the purpose of mental states. 

Under the influence of his surroundings and the 
countless billions of registrations of impression 
which were constantly poured upon him, things 
were bound to happen. It was only natural, there- 
fore, that he, primitive man, should learn to tabu- 
late and to classify each vocal grunt of apprecia- 
tion according to its usefulness to him and to its 
degree of intent. When he accomplished this he 
made a wonderful advance over his older estates, 
an advance which was to mean much to him and to 
his descendants. But when his descendants dis- 
covered that vocal grunts of appreciation were a 
movable interest, separate and apart from physical 

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motions, they made a most important discovery. 
Where before man stood in abject fear and even 
terror of his stranger-voice, he now welcomed it as 
his "open sesame"; his magic wand with which he 
could wave aside the physical and enter the court 
of the mental, or spiritual. He was, therefore, no 
longer a primitive man making motions and won- 
dering at the stranger-voice which stalked his 
every physical motion. He now had resource to 
rights of articulation whose extensive properties 
were unbound. He now had possession of sensi- 
bilities, processes of, which would in due time re- 
lease to him buried treasure of untold wealth and 
power. He had uncovered a domain where things 
would stay put and where things never grew stale 
if they were rightly received, retained and released 
to mental and physical terms of expression. He 
no longer need depend upon organic repetition to 
give him pleasurable sensations. Now, with his 
new found mode of expression, when he made his 
motions and felt their influence, he knew wherein 
they lay and he knew they were of a different sub- 
stance. This was further corroborated by the fact 
that he could adjust his physical motions to them 
as often as he pleased and just as he wished. He 
had successfully screened himself against the 
(moral) thieves of his time. He, a crude and prob- 
ably unsympathetic primitive man, had actually 
discovered and was beginning to use the one and 
only MIGHTY DELIVERER— a condition of 
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that man might make his act and his thought in- 
telligible. He had actually sensed and was begin- 
ning to use processes of action which would enable 
him to pass the great frontier that lies between 
the physical and the spiritual departments of the 
human organization. He was right on the heels of 
the so-called hidden, mysterious provinces of the 
universe in which were vested elements with which 
he was to find life more abundantly. 

We, in this far removed 20th century, may 
readily doubt that primitive man actually knew the 
full extent and power of his new found mode of 
expression. We may readily doubt that he had any 
idea of its potential attachment other than that it 
was a new game which offered fascinating prob- 
lems and experiences. It, however, certainly added 
zest to his otherwise dreary and monotonous life. 
For he was now moving out upon vast potential 
resources possessing himself slowly with its pro- 
vided investment. He had, however, no means at 
his command to reasonably digest its content. And 
having undoubtedly focused his use of it upon the 
purely physical, he was a towering giant, lunging 
this way and that, unconscious of the delicate fabri- 
cation of its content. 

The success of the human race in the great 
game of life and its living hung in the balance at 
this time of primitive man. Would he succeed in 
passing the frontier in such shape that it would 
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most certainly found voice — which is a right to use 
physical sound. Would he successfully find the 
elements imbedded in the silent, powerful impel- 
lent and which would enable him to translate voice 
into speech? As he was here up against a real 
problem, one which he did not understand, he could 
do no more than to consider voice as a mere sub- 
stitute for his physical motions. And as a nat- 
ural consequence his use of voice was misdirected. 
In its misdirection he involved his descendants in a 
most colossal misapprehension of interests of im- 
pression, rights of expression and appreciation. 
That a full and complete sense of the value of voice 
has not ever been understood and used is quite 
apparent in the fact that man throughout the ages 
has ever been the victim of belief, rather than hav- 
ing at his command a vocal demonstration of a 
mental, or spiritual fact. Further evidence that 
voice has not been understood and held true to its 
original purpose is to be found in the fact that all 
man could ever hope to have and possess was later 
seized and interned in Occult Science (The Mys- 
teries) — the parent-stock of our modern isms, cults, 
religions and ecclesiastical doctrines of belief. 
These upon strict and unbiased examination are so 
cheap in legerdemanic art they are non-essential to 
a successful conduct of the great game of life and 
its living. 

It may be stated, too, that the success of the 
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in the universe, also hung in the balance at this 
time of primitive man. Primitive man's success in 
rightly opening his new-found mode of vocal ex- 
pression was therefore of the most intense interest 
to his descendants. As evidence that he did not 
succeed according to his original investitution, it 
may be noted that man ever since has had to con- 
tend with a series of shifting language forms — not 
one of which, apparently, was quite correct — that is, 
not one apparently associated the letter, syllable and 
word-form used with the sound-form used, and with 
which the purpose of the silent, powerful impellent 
could be sensed and released to vocal motion. The 
result has been that we even today do not know 
the value of a sound-form, nor do we associate our 
use of letter, syllable, word and sentence forms with 
its function. The mental equivalent of the physical 
act — man's great open door to vast interests — re- 
mains a dream garden, where he may commortably 
sleep, rather than to be actively engaged in the real 
business of life and its living. We are also unable 
to use the subtle language of impulse. We make a 
hysterical grab for it here and there, but we miss, 
sadly so at times. And so we yet seek a medium of 
vocal expression which would adequately release 
the purpose of the great game of life and its living. 
It may be stated, too, that evidence of primitive 
man's misapplication of his use of voice is to be 
particularly noted in that we, even in this clever 
20th century, are bothered by a stranger-voice, 
mystifying in its setting, its articulation and the 

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privileges attached to its function. We are yet 
bothered by its apparent distances and depths. 
We even call it obscure and altogether intangible. 
And so we let our greatest asset of articulation, the 
"still small voice," pass us by as evidence only of 
the presence of our guardian angel. 

We, as products of this 20th century, smile at 
vocal grunts of appreciation as the possible origin 
of our language forms and their idioms of expres- 
sion. But we are actually forced to fall back upon 
them, indeed to depend upon them — as we have no 
use of letter, syllable, word and sentence forms 
which will adequately give voice to our cries of 
pain, pleasure, happiness, sorrow, anger or the 
other innumerable phases of voice with which we 
give vent to our feelings and desires. We yet use 
our own peculiar sound forms which we call our 
idioms of vocal expression — such as our "oh's," our 
"ah's," our "uh-huhs," our "urn's," our "eb's," our 
"hums," "hisses," "gutterals," "nasals," and our 
consonants in general, which only show how phy- 
sically tangled we are, and with these we labor to 
give expression to our sensibilities. They how- 
ever, show a great underlying sound form which 
typifies physical agony and spiritual distress — 
sometimes disappointment, at an unreleased spirit- 
ual content. If we would uncover a reason for the 
strange, ominous and uncanny aspect attached to 
our use of physical sound, or voice, we need look 
no further than to the ungodly use to which we put 

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the privileges of voice. Here our difficulties stand 
out with a pungent tang indicating a definite lack 
of harmonic stability and harmonic competence. It 
clearly proves that we have yet to actually find 
Voice as an UNBROKEN ARTICULATING 
ROUTE between the physical and spiritual depart- 
ments of man. We have not progressed very far 
beyond primitive man. We are, like primitive man, 
satisfied with a superficial use of sound-forms and 
our use of vocal grunts of appreciation. We dare 
not take apart what we think we possess, for, 
morally, we are cowards. We dare not face the 
possible issue of a scientific investigation and its 
subsequent revelation. Whatever we have of rights 
of impression and expression has been attained by 
a slow and laborious effort to sense and to find the 
distinctions which would release us from an over- 
bearing situation. Whatever we have attained has 
been born to us accidentally, by inspiration, some- 
times by what we term a hunch— and not by any 
conscious effort on our part to uncover, unravel and 
unfold our definite working and thinking relation 
to those activities of the universe which ordinarily 
do not appear in the physical. But which, upon 
use, open to us factors with which we may find life 
more abundantly. 

Primitive man used sound forms. They were, 
of course, far superior for purposes of communica- 
tion and information to his older modes of expres- 
sion — his physical motions. He had, because he 
had no means at his command to analyze the con- 

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tent of his sound forms, only Voice — minus tonal- 
ity. And whatever his descendants later possessed 
of tonality (human character) was attained by a 
slow and laborious, if not combersome, effort to 
find the distinctions which would release a safe, 
sane and sound relation to the universe. 

SOUND FORMS. 

Where does man get voice? 

The earth is surrounded with what is termed an 
air-blanket. 

The properties of this air-blanket are so great and 
are so intimately associated with and necessary to 
the purpose of man that he cannot move, physi- 
cally or mentally, without getting a definite re- 
sponse. This fact indicates the minute care with 
which man has been surrounded with interests to 
protect and preserve the purpose for which he was 
created. 

Setting this air-blanket in motion, even its 
minutest fragment, gives what we term sound. 
The purpose of this surrounded air-blanket, besides 
breath to sustain the physical body, is that man 
might bring those activities of the universe which 
do not ordinarily appear in the physical into play, 
and to become potential power in him. 

It is certain that from the deep-rolling thunder 
of Nature's events — which in some measure depicts 
the unfathomed depth of the composite sound- 
form of the earth — down to the minutest fragment 

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(which we pride ourselves in possessing) and upon 
which we base our right to impression and expres- 
sion, man has a scheme for purposes of expression, 
wide in scope and opportunity. We have mechan- 
ically captured some of the phases of the com- 
posite sound-form, but there we stop. And even 
there the average man has no definite physical or 
mental conception of its purpose, its fragmentary 
bits or its composite form. Man is, of course, 
thrilled when he hears sound-forms mechanically 
uttered, for they contain a subtle message which he 
cannot avoid. But apart from its mechanical utter- 
ance he has little conception of its association with 
his mental forces and powers. However he won- 
ders (when he has the time) at the vague impres- 
sions they give him. Usually he only considers them 
as an abstract, a condition of the activities of the 
universe only fit for the temperamentally inclined, 
not practical for business purposes, yet good enough 
to bathe his weary mental states in. 

When we set in motion a sound-form, we get a 
mental equivalent. 

If we could find and accomplish a mental equiva- 
lent of the composite sound-form of the earth, we 
would practically be in position to search the 
vaulted spaces of the universe notifying its ele- 
ments and its occupants that man has escaped 
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more room, newer fields, for purposes of impres- 
sion, expression and adventure. 

It may be stated, however, that our use of sound- 
forms is hardly sufficient to ruffle the surface of 
the mighty nature of the composite sound-form 
which surrounds the earth and which offers such 
a stupendous opportunity to man to make his act 
and his thought intelligible. Even in our use of 
the fragments which we possess we are seriously 
handicapped by the manner in which we use our 
letter, syllable, word and sentence forms. We 
have the same difficulty in getting a sure measure 
of the purpose of a sound-form as does the scien- 
tist who has to use dots and dashes to set a sound- 
wave in motion and make it intelligible. In other 
words, the dots and dashes which the scientist has 
to use is quite synonymous with our letter, syl- 
lable, word and sentence forms — both of which 
prevent a full measure of the purpose of a sound- 
wave, sound-form or sound-length. 

Sound is an activity of the universe under the 
dominion of natural law, a force which responds to 
automatic precision. That is, it requires only a 
touch to set the air blanket which surrounds the 
earth ablaze, revealing the otherwise silent activi- 
ties of the universe. It seems especially designed 
to release what may be termed the super-fruits of 
the universe. Moreover, it seems to contain with- 
in its resources sufficient to prove that man is 
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self with an element superior to the spiritual, the 
soul. At any rate, it gives a mental equivalent of 
the physical act and of a type which is to be found 
nowhere else and through no other process. It 
may be said, therefore, to be the one real propo- 
sition which the Creator released to the earth that 
man might make his act and his thought intelli- 
gible. But so far, in our use of such a privilege, 
we have miserably failed. 

A sound-form, such as we use it, is made up of 
fragments of the composite sound-form which sur- 
rounds the earth, fragments which have been 
brought within the reach of the mental and physi- 
cal departments of man. The physical purpose of 
a sound-form is to enable man to hold in vocal 
motion an impression which has been crystalized 
into what we term a thought. The mental pur- 
pose of a sound-form (associated with hearing and 
with feeling) is to enable man to gather elements 
of the spiritual realms of the universe which make 
up the essence of an impression. And this, to my 
mind, is one of the great aspects of the game of 
life. In its use no man is favored. He has, there- 
fore, a just, a true measure of human endeavor, a 
measure which is automatically unquestioned. It 
is superior to the physiological measure of man, 
that which has been forced upon the human race 
as a measure of human character, but which only 
takes into consideration the physical peculiarities 
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suffers, and for which he is not altogether respon- 
sible. Such an individual is "out of tune with the 
infinite." He deserves sympathy and help — not 
condemnation. He has to struggle with inefficient 
means of physical expression, and that he should 
have placed upon him a curse, born of physical ab- 
normalities, is reprehensible. That he should be 
pointed out as a weak individual and his weak 
spots shown by which commercial advantage could 
be taken of him is brutal in the extreme and 
wholly unwarranted by the facts in the case. That 
it should be called character reading proves a lack 
of understanding of conditions under which men 
labor to be decently human. It may be seen that 
it is not character reading; that it is not con- 
cerned with character as it originally exists. How- 
ever, there is something good in it. And the good 
is that men are gradually beginning to under- 
stand that they do not receive a physical birth 
free from prenatal and other influences. 

Sound is the universal medium supplied by the 
Creator for man to make his act and his thought 
intelligible. In vocal motion it is a continuous 
stream upon which is to be exhibited the impres- 
sion in mind. In its graduations it passes the 
physical to take on elements associated with the 
mental equivalent of the physical act. It there- 
fore makes of Occult Science and its modern suc- 
cessors, the isms, cults, religions and ecclesiastical 
doctrines of belief, a most presumptious attempt 
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business of life and its living. The fact that man 
is afflicted with such beliefs and that he willingly 
accepts his affliction is all the more evidence that 
he has yet to find and to arriculate his sensibili- 
ties upon voice as an UNBROKEN ARTICU- 
LATING ROUTE between the physical and 
mental departments of his organization. 



Sound-forms have two specific purposes. These 



are: 



1. Besides enjoyment of them, they exist that 
man might have a means of (vocal) communication 
on the physical plane. 

2. Besides their use as a means of communica- 
tion the physical plane, they are associated with the 
action vested in his mental equivalent. They exist, 
therefore, that he might prove the Reality of the 
unseen. 

It is curious to note the way that man has come 
through the ages to this 20th century. For instance 
— since the time of primitive man and his use of 
vocal grunts of appreciation, and since the time that 
his descendants classified these vocal grunts of ap- 
preciation into what we term language forms, there 
has been considerable advance made in a use of 
them. 

Man's measure of information and communica- 
tion rested for a long time on his use of the classi- 
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any scientific attempt to classify them, they were 
derived almost entirely from the peculiarity of 
man's use of muscle and nerve. As tribe separated 
from tribe, and as man formed colonies, states and 
nations, these grunts of vocal appreciation took on 
whatever was necessary to the life of the tribe, col- 
ony, state or nation. 

Then came symbols. And for a long time man 
was content with symbols. 

After a long time came the printing press. 

Then came the telegraph, next the telephone, 
then the wireless and now we have the wireless 
without the usual cumbersome stations. 

It may thus be seen that man is gradually mov- 
ing forward to possess the means of information 
and communication which was originally provided 
by the Creator that he might make his act and his 
thought intelligible. 

When he is able to fully accomplish the purpose 
of a sound-form he will be in direct contact and as- 
sociation with the purpose of the air blanket which 
surrounds the earth ; and there is every reason to 
believe that he will find himself practically unlimit- 
ed — in his use of sound-forms as a medium for in- 
formation and communication. 

The problem of sound-forms is of the first magni- 
tude. It is of such commanding proportions that 
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correct use of sound-forms we are up against 
a very serious proposition. Properly placed, there 
is a stupendous promise in its action; a promise 
which means much to suffering humanity. 

1. It is unlimited. 

2. It will provide a forging of a civilization 
whose standards of efficiency will encompass a real 
lasting brotherhood of man the world over. 

3. It will enable man to discover a true indi- 
vidual relation to the ceaseless activities of the 
universe, both of the physical and of the spiritual, 
which exist that man may live and have life more 
abundantly. 

4. It will enable man to clear the present read- 
ings of human potentiality and the potentialities of 
Him, whom some of us term God, of all the impos- 
sible postulates fastened upon human and divine 
interests of impression, rights of expression and 
appreciation. 

5. It will enable men to get directly in touch 
with elements with which he can find an open road 
leading to a scientific recognition and use of the 
very substance of the universe. 

6. It will enable man to understand the work- 
ings of the earth. It will enable man to attain a 
mastery of its essential secrets (so called), includ- 
ing its working relation to the other planets of the 
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7. It will enable man to communicate with the 
inhabitants of the other planets of the solar system 
of which this earth is but an infinitesimal part. 

8. It will enable man to attain a real vision of 
the Creator of the universe, a vision so far mightier 
than our older and present ideas that we shall 
wonder that we were ever so shortsighted in vision 
as to accept what has been stated reasonable. It 
will enable man to attain a thinking and working 
sense of the purpose of the Creator in man, upon 
the earth and in the universe. 

When we accomplish a use of sound-forms and 
when we accomplish a mental equivalent of its 
physical aspect we shall then begin to live, for we 
shall see and realize the glory of the purpose of 
the earth and of the universe. We shall then 
realize its simplicity and its magnitude. We shall 
then, and then alone, sense and use those activi- 
ties of the universe which do not ordinarily ap- 
pear in the physical, and as these have been espe- 
cially provided that man might make his act and 
his thoughts intelligible. 

What would civilization not now give if its 
every individual unit were capable of using sound- 
forms with which to arouse a mental equivalent 
of physical action, and in which a right to trans- 
late an impression to mental and physical terms of 
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Some pertinent facts concerning the composite 
sound-form of the earth are: 

1. It is the one and only word, including an 
action by which its phases may be understood and 
used, released by the Creator that man might 
make his act and his thought intelligible. 

2. It was originally intended as a supporting in- 
terest (as well as a sustaining and searching in- 
terest) — via vocal action, a right to use physical 
sound. 

3. It contains selective elements wherewith 
vocal action is determined, set in motion and made 
profitable. 

4. It embodies elements of the physical and 
spiritual activities of the universe, both of which 
exist that man may live and have life more abund- 
antly. 

5. It has been confused with pitch and intensity 
of purpose. But (as far as man's individual use of 
it is concerned) it has nothing directly to do with 
pitch and intensity of purpose. 

6. It has been confused with temperament and 
mood. But (as far as man's individual use of it is 
concerned) it has nothing to do directly with tem- 
perament and mood. 

7. Few men can definitely employ even its 
fragmentary forms — such as these are found on our 

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use of letter, syllable, word and sentence forms, to 
sustain a spiritual fact in vocal motion. 

8. In our use of it we attempt to force it by a 
sort of accent and inflection which proceeds from 
the physical. But the sound-form, even in our 
fragmentary use of it, always beats us to it by 
deliberately clashing with our use of letter, syl- 
lable, word and sentence forms. 

Practically everything of the universe yields to 
mental, or spiritual, and physical terms of expres- 
sion. And that they take a definite form, seems 
certain. For instance: 

There are sound forms that exactly fit the type 
and the harmonic essence of every possible physical 
and spiritual motive interest. 

There are sound forms that exactly fit the type 
and the harmonic essence of our use of letter forms 
— which are the simplest of fragments of the great 
parent-stock from which they are derived. 

There are sound forms that exactly fit the type 
and the harmonic essence of our use of syllable 
forms — which are a combination of letter forms. 

There are sound forms that exactly fit the type 
and the harmonic essence of our use of word- 
forms — which are a combination of letter and syl- 
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There are sound forms that exactly fit the type 
and the harmonic essence of our use of sentence 
forms — which are a combination of letter, syllable 
and word forms. 

There are sound forms that exactly fit the type 
and the harmonic essence of our own peculiar tem- 
perament, and upon which rests man's individual 
identity. 

It would therefore appear that man, ages ago, 
ought to have been able to uncover, unravel and 
unfold his relation to the universe. And that we 
still are in a most sorry plight of articulation be- 
speaks volumes for the inaccurate reading of human 
potentiality as given us by the masters of men — 
in the ages past. 

Man, in his use of these sound-forms, is dealing 
with an exact figuration of his act and his thought. 
His use of sound-forms, therefore, tells tales of his 
general articulating condition, both physical and 
mental. In his use of sound-forms he finds ele- 
ments of articulation which reveal him just as he 
is and just as he does not want to be revealed. 
And — what a revelation! Truly the Creator has 
been just, for here is revealed the fact that He has 
granted no especial dispensation, no special privi- 
lege and no special device by which sins may be 
covered or forgiven. Here is revealed the fact that 
He has placed no crown of special design upon 
anyone's head as a mark of preference. There are 
no class privileges to be observed nor saints to be 

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saluted in our use of sound-forms at our disposal. 
No man can hide behind an especially prepared 
fine diction or finely phrased and accentuated sen- 
tence-form; for his use of sound-forms distinctly 
shows the physical and mental condition of the 
man who uses them. And again — what a revela- 
tion! Who dare face it? The self-crowned saints 
of the so-called privileged class are shown to be 
just as sickly and harmonically incompetent as the 
individuals of the lowly common heard upon 
whom they, by self-appointed authority, would im- 
pose their right of obedience in both secular and 
religious law. 

Sound forms tell tales of harmonic instability 
which those who use them would much rather not 
have revealed. They tell tales of physical, mental 
spiritual, intellectual and psychical suffering which 
make it all the more presumptuous for any leader of 
civilization and human branches of endeavor to name 
the Name of the Creator of the universe. They tell 
tales of fluidic and plasmic changes which take 
place in the physical department of the human or- 
ganization. They tell tales of their effect upon 
spiritual vision. They offer, therefore, to the medical 
fraternity a splendid opportunity to become real 
expert diagnosticians, as they reveal the exact con- 
dition of the patient who seeks relief from physical 
and spiritual misery. They tell tales of muscular, 
and nervous disabilities and the effect of such con- 
ditions upon the intellect in the way of so-called 

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secret irritations which prevent its reasonable use. 
They distinctly show the weak muscular, nervous 
and intellectual links of the great chain which binds 
impression and expression to a continuous stream 
of sound, and its association with the letter, sylla- 
ble, word and sentence forms used. They are, there- 
fore, superior for purpose of diagnosis and are more 
dependable than any other method, as they show 
exactly the location of the disturbance. 

They foreshadow a great underlying sound form 
of stupendous proportions. They also foreshadow 
a great underlying language of impulses; a lan- 
guage of impulse which we now use half- 
heartedly, although we actually depend upon it for 
our greatest effort in expression. It may be stated 
in passing that this language of impulse is quite 
synonymous in many ways with rhythmic influ- 
ences with which in motion we uncover, unravel 
and unfold so much that is of inestimable benefit to 
civilization. None of us, even in this clever 20th 
century, may think we can successfully hide behind 
or within ourselves. Nature is not so crude as to 
permit it. If we travel on the broken bits of sound- 
forms, nature has them all tabulated. If we travel 
on the wings of rhythmic influence, nature has pos- 
session of the "arc" upon which we travel. Man 
may acquire a well defined vocabulary; he may 
acquire a fine accentuation of his vocabulary, but 
the sound-form used will automatically declare his 
position in spite of his clever attempt to hide from 
harmonic justice. 

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If we listen very carefully — we will be able to 
detect the origin of the sound; the impulse which 
drove it to action and the dominating influences 
which control it. We may also readily determine 
just how far the one with whom we hold converse 
may be trusted ; just how far he will go before mak- 
ing a disagreeable break, for his entire vision is 
thereupon inscribed and circumscribed. It is be- 
cause he can only think and work thereupon that 
he is an open book to the one who has possession 
of the trade-marks of human disabilities at his com- 
mand. Every confusion of impulse, every plunge 
of the physical and the spiritual may be readily de- 
tected. Man unconsciously responds to demands 
which are chiefly centered in the physical positions 
of voice. These tell tales of just where the indi- 
vidual under inspection is thinking and working, 
and it is not always a pleasant sensation which is 
revealed. They absolutely show the exact vibratory 
action and influence under which the individual is 
laboring to give expression to his physical and 
spiritual account of the great game of life and its 
living. To those who have the trade-marks of hu- 
man disabilities at their command, they show man's 
present plight of articulation, and the responsibility 
for this plight should be placed where it belongs — 
upon Occult Science and its successors, the isms, 
cults, religions and ecclesiastical doctrines of belief. 

Freedom has ever been a watch-word of civiliza- 
tion. 

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It is the freedom of physical and mental rights 
of articulation that attracts us to our fellows, and 
to the privileges of the game of life. Freedom is 
not alone vested in speaking our minds. It is not 
alone vested in the right of the public press to criti- 
cise religious officials, the secular officials of State 
and National government. Freedom is vested in — a 
perfect physical co-ordination and an action in har- 
mony with spirit. Freedom is man enshrined be- 
tween two great worlds of physical and spiritual 
material. The failure to definitely recognize such a 
state of articulation must be placed where it be- 
longs — upon our educational institutions, both secu- 
lar and religious. 

TRADE MARKS. 

The first trade-mark to be noted is physical un- 
rest; a physical unrest which actually prohibits a 
legitimate use of either the physical or the spiritual 
articulating devices of the human organization. 
There is little doubt but that in this fact we are 
to find reasons why men are so terrifically tangled 
in vocal and other forms of expression. This unrest 
impells us to a confusion of impulses, as we inevi- 
tably work from muscular disabilities and nervous 
eccentricities, and it imposes itself upon the sensory 
apparatus in general which belongs to the mental, 
or spiritual. 

The second trade-mark is the general lack of 
spiritual depth — which is, of course, a result of 

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physical limitations. And, although the spiritual 
is the province in which man is to particularly 
play the great game of life, he is actually compelled 
to measure its worth according to the limitations 
of the physical. In the physical we may note 
a terrific undertow, particularly in its effect upon 
our use of physical sound, or voice. It hardens the 
native resiliency of the muscle and nerve and it re- 
stricts intellectual processes. It grinds into every 
spiritual conception we may have, spoiling its deli- 
cate fabrication. We sometimes think of it as a 
splendid illustration of physical virility and health. 
This is true, but if it in any way is imposed upon 
the spiritual it becomes a distinct menace, for it pro- 
hibits the afflicted individual from sensing pro- 
portion. In its proper place it is fine. Out of its 
proper place it is decidedly dangerous. It may be 
likened to the sound made by a purring animal 
whose physical content is figured therein. We 
know, however, the sudden and swift change; the 
uncanny element which creeps into the sound when 
the animal is disturbed. It seems to take on a 
deeply emboweled position which warns us of 
danger. This is equally true of the man, for he 
distinctly shows the origin and the depth of his 
vocal position in his use of his physical mechanics. 
He shows whether he has been used as a copy- 
book, a memo-pad upon which the educator, secular 
or religious, has scribbled; or whether he has been 
able of his own initiative to sense, reach, receive, 

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retain and release his impression in all its ori- 
ginal purity and excellence of purpose. 

The trade-mark which will, perhaps, give us the 
best evidence of physical disabilities of articulation 
— a result of the terrific undertow — is the 
manner in which the tip of the tongue is used. 
Usually it has been pushed back upon the mass of 
the tongue. It then loses its original sensitiveness 
and native resiliency. We have then a thickness 
of articulation the particular effect of which is to 
be noted in the variable hisses, hums and the con- 
sonants. Any individual who has difficulty in the 
articulation of the hisses, hums and the consonants 
is suffering physically and spiritually. We as a 
human race, will never overcome this disability 
until we learn to articulate all our sensibilities upon 
the one and only "straight and narrow path" which 
is — a perfect physical co-ordination and an action in 
harmony with spirit. 

It is a most unfortunate incident of our present 
standards of health that we are compelled to note 
that the undertow before mentioned has been taken 
as evidence of an overtone— the oversoul. This 
has caused a most unfortunate measure of human 
potentiality as well as of the power of God. It 
merely proves the physical and the mental limita- 
tions of the individuals under inspection and with 
whom we hold converse, and is no evidence of over- 
soul. Difficulties in the articulation of the hisses, 
hums and the consonants may be instantly released 

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if the tip of the tongue is relieved from pressure 
which has been put upon it by muscular and ner- 
vous tension. 

The effect of the undertow is to be found in all 
walks of life. It shows its effect upon civilization 
with a vengeful spirit, as it actually deprives man 
of vision from which he gets real "glad tidings of 
great joy." Our ministerial friends of the pulpit 
(all denominations) are especially afflicted with this 
undertow which has been taken as evidence of the 
oversoul, and how they can expect to give a rea- 
sonable reading of the Word of God is beyond com- 
prehension. It gives evidence that the Word of 
God is in dire need of a real man's voice in the pul- 
pit, and it is certain that both man and God would 
be much benefited if this were accomplished. It is 
certain, too, that the multitudes would not have to 
listen to a Word of God upon which had been im- 
posed personal opinion, personal idiocioncracies of 
man's use of sound-forms, letter, syllable, word and 
sentence forms. They would not have to listen to 
and feel a Word of God which was apparently re- 
leased under physical discomfort and spiritual dis- 
tress. Under the present plight of articulation in 
which man finds himself it is practically impossible 
to do otherwise than to mangle the Word of God. 
It is practically impossible to secure a vision of the 
Purpose of the Creator in man, upon the earth and 
in the universe in any other form than emotional 
states. The Irishman's wake, the Church litany, 
the Jewish lamentation and the southern negro's 

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ability to kick up his heels and "get religion" are 
synonymous from an emotional point of view. 
They differ only in degree, but the difference in de- 
gree does not remove them from emotional states. 
One is inclined to have considerable uneasiness con- 
cerning the Word of God. The usual ministerial 
voice surely indicates the confusion of the physical 
impulses of life and the influence of this confusion 
upon the mind of man. We can hardly expect 
therefore to get a true and just measure of the pur- 
pose of the Creator in man, upon the earth and in 
the universe at their hands. 

The promiscuous use of accent and inflection is 
another trade-mark which shows where the indi- 
vidual stands and with what department of the 
human organization he is mostly involved. It is 
an unquestioned and scientific fact that a real spir- 
itual vision needs no physical accentuation to give 
it life. Man's wealth, as contained in the game of 
life and its living, is of the spiritual. The spiritual 
is a fabrication whose quantity and quality is all 
sufficient. To preserve it in vocal motion and to 
properly visualize it without damage to its fabric 
is a task of exceedingly simple proportions as it is 
based upon — a perfect physical co-ordination and 
an action in harmony with spirit. 

A short quick breath is an indication of dia- 
phragmatic misery. It is an indication that the 
musculature of the body is involved and that the 

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muscles in sequence are unable to strictly mind the 
business of their particular purpose. An audible 
breath is an indication that the muscles of the throat 
are involved and that the victim will be unable 
therefore to catch fine disticntions which are so 
necessary to a successful conduct of the game of 
life and its living. Such conditions of the articulat- 
ing devices of the human organization prevent the 
victim from using sound forms, letter, syllable, 
word and sentence forms true to their association 
with the great underlying sound form. They also 
prevent the victim from sensing and using the focal- 
point of co-ordination, which is so necessary to phy- 
sical and spiritual alertness and astuteness. These 
conditions compel the victim to indulge in articli- 
maxes, destroying an original and purposeful sense 
of the impression and its vocal expression. An in- 
dividual so afflicted is automatically sick — physi- 
cally and spiritually. 

Any one who fails to give every letter in the 
syllable and every syllable in the word and every 
word in the sentence full value, is not getting the 
full interest of this harmonic association and con- 
tent. Any one who fails to clear the end of his let- 
ter, syllable or word is not getting full value for the 
energy spent in its articulation of them. They rep- 
resent losses which seriously interfere with vision. 
Any one who runs his letter, syllable and word for- 
mations together, crowding one upon the other, is 
not rendering full service — vocally — to himself nor 

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to those who have to listen to him. Under such 
circumstances the interference with vision is of un- 
told proportions. These incidents of voice have a 
further interest in that they impell the same sort of 
action upon man's mental equivalent. And as soon 
as this is done, the action of the physical — being 
automatically responsive to the mental, takes on 
the same limitation. The reverse is just as true. In 
either case there is a smothering process going on 
which is hard to detect — as it is so subtle. 

Any one who feels it necessary to overemploy 
gesticulation to help him put over his statement or 
thought is not at all sure of his statement or 
thought. Under such circumstances his sensibili- 
ties will inevitably be dominated by values vested 
in the purely physical. When we get up against 
such articulations we may know that the mental 
equivalent has had forced upon it an action which 
disturbs its original right ,and is not therefore as 
trustworthy as it might be. Further, mental states, 
so forged or builded, forces the one so afflicted to 
circulate around values vested in the everyday en- 
vironment only. 

It may be here stated that spirituality is an 
inclusive right. Mental states are an exclusive in- 
cident to spirituality. That is to state spirituality 
is an unbound interest of the universe. And mental 
states are always bound to the limitations of the 
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articulates the privileges vested therein according 
to his limitations. Spirituality is an open road to 
the immensity of the universe. Whatever sense of 
spiritual values the average man attains, under the 
circumstances above outlined, represents a limita- 
tion of perspective bounded to him by his modes of 
vocal expression. Further, under the circumstances 
outlined in this volume on Voice, Speech and 
Thinking, whatever sense of spiritual values man 
attains is mainly by accident and not by any con- 
scious manipulation of the forces originally de- 
signed to release the content of the same. For the 
individuals so afflicted have so habituated their use 
of muscle, nerve and intellect to the physical po- 
sitions necessary to a use of physical sound, or voice, 
that they are actually compelled to accept whatever 
it allows them to sense and to articulate. Man's 
physical machinery has failed its original purpose, 
which is service. And here we may note yet an- 
other trade-mark which is vitally associated with 
expression. It is the manner in which the physical 
body in general is brought into action. It should 
willingly respond to every demand placed upon it 
to visualize the intent and the content of its spir- 
itual concomitant. If the undertow, before men- 
tioned, appears first — it is a sure indication 
that the person afflicted is suffering from a lack of 
physical co-ordination. From such states of articu- 
lation will rise hesitancy, uncertainty, a failure to 
definitely select the necessary sound form and to re- 
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syllable, word and sentence form used. These con- 
ditions tell tales of a definite disappointment which 
does not usually take the form of a question such 
as we commonly recognize the term. They rather 
take the form of a confession (silent though it may 
be) of a failure somehow to realize the great under- 
lying right of articulation which represents Voice 
between the physical and spiritual departments of 
man. If there is a reason for the ominous and un- 
canny aspect concerning the origin, function and 
uses to which sound, or voice, may be put, here is 
another evidence of it. 

We have, however, been taught by our ecclesi- 
astical institutions to forget it. The apparent diffi- 
culties of articulation would be so beautifully 
ironed out when we reached those shining shores 
(to which we are all bound) that we would 
never know we had been afflicted. Furthermore, 
we would all then be in condition to take 
our right position before the Creator. But it never 
was a true statement, although one could veritably 
wish it were true. How we were to overcome the 
habit of physically sensing spiritual rights has not 
been explained by the ecclesiastic — indeed he 
would be hard pressed (insulted as well if he were 
asked to explain. His statement is so palpably 
wrong and is of such an unjust reading of the pur- 
pose of the Creator upon the earth (as well as a 
menace to the aspiring hopes of the individuals of 
civilization) that it is a stigma upon this 20th cen- 
tury's intelligence if it is permitted to go unchal- 

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lenged. It is a confession that the ecclesiastical 
teaching deliberately disregards the presence and 
function of the silent, powerful impellent whose 
fastenings to the activities of the universe it is man's 
especial privilege to unleash for his benefit, plea- 
sure and profit. It is a confession, too, that the 
ecclesiastic is perfectly willing to disregard the fact 
that man stands before the Creator originally gifted 
with powers of comprehension which he gets in a 
mental equivalent of the physical manifestaiton of 
the purpose of the Creator in man and upon the 
earth, and with voice sufficient in dimensions to 
fully accomplish the game of life and its living. It 
yet is a confession that the ecclesiastic has over- 
looked the general fact that man could not compre- 
hend the Word of God unless he was sensible of 
the powers vested in the human organization and 
which lead him to comprehend the power of God. 
He has also overlooked the fact that if he (the 
ecclesiastic) could sense the Word of God, so could 
the multitudes, as they are of the same material as 
the ecclesiastic. 

Along the UNBROKEN ARTICULATING 
ROUTE before mentioned, every inscription of the 
Creator of the universe has been definitely placed. 
Along this route is God's speech to His creatures, 
and it represents the one and only method in which 
He spoke to His creatures. The right to criticise is 
based upon an unalterable fact of interests of im- 
pression, rights of expression and appreciation, as 
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TICULATING ROUTE between the physical and 
mental, or spiritual, departments of man. A further 
right to criticise is based upon the general fact that 
few men of the human race (including the ecclesias- 
tic — in spite of his self-proclaimed hand-to-hand 
contact with God) can definitely pass the test of 
physical co-ordination and an action in harmony 
with spirit. 

The trade-marks above mentioned indicate phys- 
sical distress. 

They tell tales of spiritual discomfiture. 

And that we submit to them as a declaration 
of the power of God is sufficient in itself to prove 
that the whole of the human race is in a sorry plight 
of articulation. 

There is one other human interest which we 
must not let pass in our observation of trade-marks 
wherewith man may legitimately uncover the con- 
dition of the individuals with whom we hold con- 
verse. In our public schools (as well as the paro- 
chial and private schools) there is really so little 
attention given to the articulation of sound-forms 
and the manner in which the letter, syllable, word 
and sentence forms used are associated with them, 
that it is practically impossible to prevent an on- 
coming "hooligan" language and its influence upon 
mental states. When we think of the responsibility 
of school instruction and its influence upon the com- 
ing generations, we cannot help wondering to what 
standards of vocal efficiency we are doomed by this 

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indifference. If there are any especially chosen of 
God, they are the children, for they actually repre- 
sent the full measure of the term in all its purity 
and excellence. To let the children proceed to as- 
similate the elementaries of life from which they are 
to proceed to a complete recognition of the value of 
the game of life and its living in such a manner is 
entirely out of order and is entirely uncalled for. 
I state without reservation of mind whatsoever that 
if the children were shown a proper use and place- 
ment of voice — on that focal-point which I have 
designated as resonance — their powers of assimila- 
tion would automatically increase. They would 
automatically reach a 100 per cent efficiency of im- 
pression and expression. Further, in the course of 
two generations we would have a civilization whose 
standards of efficiency, concerning impression and 
expression, has never before been equaled. 

However, we dare think in this clever 20th cen- 
tury that we have a civilization — the best ever. 
We think we are exceedingly clever when we refer 
to sound forms as inarticulates and to our use of 
letter, syllable, word and sentence forms as articu- 
lates. As a matter of fact our use of the letter, syl- 
lable, word and sentence forms show a distressing 
condition under which we labor. They definitely 
prove that we cannot hope ever to gather a true and 
wholesome thinking and working sense of the great 
game of life which we are privileged to play. 

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Of such is voice — minus tonality, or at best, 
voice with a much tangled expression of tonality. 
None of us, except the singer and the ecclesiastic, 
may be overly proud of it. The singer and the ec- 
clesiastic have no excuse whatsoever for their pride 
in voice — minus tonality, except that of a total ig- 
norance of it as an UNBROKEN ARTICULAT- 
ING ROUTE between the physical and mental de- 
partments of man. But this is no excuse at all. It 
merely adds its evidence to the glaring fact that 
the majority of the human race are in a sorry plight 
of articulation, and are therefore thoroughly unre- 
sponsive to any reasonable reading of powers, both 
in man and in God. 

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Voice, primarily, is physical sound — minus 
tonality. 

Speech is Voice — plus tonality. 

Thinking automatically becomes a simple act 
when we associate these elements of expression and 
have them under command. 



Voice, in its simple dimensions, is — all physical 
sound. 

Voice, in its larger dimensions, is — all tonality. 

Voice, in its simple dimensions, is — of terms of 
physical expression. 

Voice, in its larger dimensions, is — of terms of 
spiritual expression. 

Voice, as physical sound, is — a prophet in the 
wilderness. It contains intent and content. 

Voice, representing tonality, is — the fulfillment 
of the prophecy. It is the releaser of intent and 
content. 

Voice — is a forerunner. 

Speech — is the mighty deliverer, in action. 

Contrary to the usual definition of speech, it is 
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impression to mental and physical terms of expres- 
sion. 

The distinctions that exist between voice and 
speech are to be further found in the following po- 
sitions of voice: positions which materially differ 
(at least in their influence upon expression) from 
its purely physical aspect. These are: 

1. The physical sound of voice, such as loud 
voice, medium voice and soft voice and their vari- 
ations, degrees of intensity and other manifesta- 
tions of the purpose to which sound may be put. 

2. The whispering element of voice — which is 
in a class by itself. 

3. The formulating period of voice — just be- 
hind the whispering element of voice and just be- 
fore the last and most important element of all, 
namely : 

4. The element of voice which we for ages have 
recognized as the "still small voice." 

The first mentioned element of voice belongs 
almost entirely to the physical act of producing 
sound — from which we get voice and its variations. 
It is a primitive act, however, as it belongs almost 
wholly to the physical. It is the cause of much 
music, especially of the singing voice, which is 
nothing more nor less than a series of graduated 
sounds. The same may be said of much of our use 
of sound forms in speech. 

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The second element of voice appears as the last 
physical accentuation of the act of producing 
sound, or voice. 

The third element of voice, the formulating 
period — is that which is directly answerable to both 
the physical and the spiritual articulating devices. 

The fourth element of voice, the "still small 
voice" is that which is the final result of both the 
physical and spiritual sensibilities to sound. 

The first is an element with which we originally 
sensed our articulating rights in and of a use of 
physical sound. 

The second, being in a class by itself, is an ele- 
ment of voice the position and action of which we 
have never given the attention it really deserves. 
Had we examined it more minutely we would have 
uncovered some very pertinent facts concerning our 
use of the articulating devices of the human organ- 
ization. We would have uncovered the fact that we 
were the victims of an unhealthy muscular and ner- 
vous tension. However, it really represents a sort 
of finality to the physical act cf producing sound, 
or voice. 

The third, the formulating period is (in our 
present plight of articulation) the most important, 
as with the positions definitely wrought into action, 
we may discover and uncover an original place- 
ment which gives a right to pass from one position 
to another position (it enables us to definitely 
recognize its attachment) in perfect safety and 

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without damage to either position. It is a much 
neglected element of voice — although it can hardly 
be called voice. Yet, being a sort of modeling po- 
sition (modeling in the sense of its being a formu- 
lating period where the physical takes on a position 
necessary to release fully the intent of the spir- 
itual) it is a lead to the spiritual in due and reg- 
ular form. It is so deeply associated with elements 
of human character — intution for instance — 
that it occupies a strategic focal-point (so to 
speak), influencing elements which are associated 
with the scheme of expression in general. In the 
sense above outlined it is a sort of feeler; a sort 
of sensitive searching for just the physical forma- 
tion necessary to release the essence of the impres- 
sion in mind. We will, when we more strictly ex- 
amine its action and the business of its purpose, 
discover why we as individuals of the human race 
are so amazingly adrift in the broad expanse of 
rights of articulation attached to the great game 
of life and its living. We will find that we have 
lost a normal sensitiveness to formulating rights 
which have been expressly devised to release the 
subtle substance of the mental, or spiritual. With- 
out it in due and regular form it is next to impos- 
sible to gather a full and true working sense of the 
mental equivalent of the physical act. We will dis- 
cover, too, why we have letter, syllable, word and 
sentence formations of physical sound which are so 
distressingly at variance with our use of sound- 

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forms. We will discover why these so unmerci- 
fully clash and why they so unmercifully interfere 
with a normal resiliency of action, both physical 
and mental. It is further a sort of connecting link, 
subtle in adaptability, which would enable us to 
seek and find an original association between the 
physical and mental articulating devices of man. 

The fourth element of voice, the much coveted 
and the most beloved, the "still small voice," is far 
removed within our internal selves. It is the won- 
der-element of voice, the wonder-voice to which the 
great thinkers, dreamers and other artisans of the 
privileges vested in the game of life and its living 
have all paid homage. The beauty of it; the fas- 
cination it holds, the wonderful vision it provides, 
the all inclusive horizon of its potential attachment 
and depth is man's right to be named "Made in His 
Image." But it will not be until we are able to defi- 
nitely uncover, unravel and unfold its mighty and 
far-reaching attachment that we can safely use its 
action and sense its province to the full purpose of 
its original rights. It represents the far end of 
man's UNBROKEN ARTICULATING ROUTE 
between the purely physical and the purely spiritual 
departments of the human organization. 

It is a most extraordinary provision and articu- 
lating privilege. It is amazing that we, as members 
of the human race and heirs to this splendid scheme 
of rights or articulation, have not yet found and 
associated each position with the purpose of im- 
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divulge the purpose of the Creator in man, upon the 
earth and in the universe. But some of these days, 
in the near future, let us hope the whole scheme 
will be understood and rightly associated, put in 
order and placed under the command of every in- 
dividual. Then the secret of life will out. Man will 
realize the potential resources of the game which 
he is privileged to play. Those who demand a 
scientific physical manifestation of the game of life 
will be satisfied that life is not wholly vested in the 
physical, and that it does not end with physical 
death. We will, too, be actually forced to take 
notice whether our use of voice is physically at- 
tached, also whether it is sufficiently detached to 
permit us to fully sense and to command vital dis- 
tinctions which exist that man may live. We shall 
then be forewarned and forearmed, as we shall then 
know the full extent of individual, national and in- 
ternational trusworthiness and truthfulness. 

It is the stranger-voice, the mysterious voice, 
that bothered primitive man and which has bothered 
his descendents ever since. The positions of voice 
mentioned above is the very action that would have 
given those who sought the Lost Word command 
of its apparent purpose. .It is the stranger- voice 
that gave primitive man the idea that the Great 
Spirit was speaking to him. It is the element of ex- 
pression which Occult Science sought and with 
which its devotees hoped to find a means to "travel 
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rate the mental from the physical in order to func- 
tion in the spiritual realms of the universe. 

Reaching the action and the province of the 
"still small voice" has been relegated to medieval 
settings, such as occult mysteries, the isms, cults, 
religions and ecclesiastical doctrines of belief with 
which the field of human endeavor is so amazingly 
cluttered. Some time in the future the physical 
scientist may be able to provide us with a vibrator- 
ial thermometer for testing the positions of voice, 
including the "still small voice" and the mechanism 
of the physical and mental articulating devices of 
man. In the meantime, however, here we are in 
this otherwise clever 20th century totally adrift. 
We have no command of our original sensitive ap- 
paratus with which we may definitely get in touch 
with the privileges of articulating physical sound 
and its mental duplicate, via voice, and more espec- 
ially this wonderful, far removed, most sensitive of 
all human rights of articulation — the "still small 
voice." 

Speech is a problem over which we may well 
pause. Practically all our standards of civilization 
have been falsely based and falsely formulated and 
interpreted, because we lack in vital distinctions 
which exist between voice and speech. Because of 
this lack of distinctions the majority of men actually 
do not know the origin, function and purpose of 
voice. They have only an artificial manipulation of 
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It has been thought that speech was the result 
of the physical use of sound ; that it was a reflection, 
possibly a reaction — a sort of echo which responded 
to the physical act of producing sound. And that it 
had, therefore, no further purpose or depth. Such 
an attitude of mind would totally ignore the pres- 
ence and function of the silent, powerful impellent, 
an activity of the universe which constantly stalks 
our every endeavor. It unfortunately is only too 
true that man has forced his physical act of produc- 
ing sound, or voice, upon his mental or spiritual 
sensibilities. And so, that which was originally in- 
tended and designed as a serviceable unit of mighty 
potential force has been formulated, regulated and 
even modeled upon its more gross associate — the 
physical. It was in such an act that man set in 
motion processes of articulation which have caused 
him stupendous misery and loss. If he has no de- 
pendable sense of harmonic interests and values, he 
will here find the reason for it. 

For proof of the statement that man has forced 
the physical act of producing sound, or voice, upon 
his more sensitive associate, the mental or spiritual, 
and that his measure of the game of life is physio- 
logical rather than spiritual and psychical, let any 
man who is interested in a scientific use of physical 
sound, or voice, and who would find why he has 
difficulty in gathering distinctions necessary to play 
the game of life, read a verse or two out loud. Then 
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will find that he has actually forced upon his mental 
reading an exact duplicate of his physical reading. 
All the hesitation, all the variable difficulties which 
he usually finds in his physical act of producing 
sound, or voice, have been forced upon his mental 
or spiritual sensibility. What this actually means 
to vision is left to the imagination of the reader. 
While it is claimed to be quite normal, it is not at 
all normal. It proves the statement correct. The 
very fact that the vocal articulation of the mental 
is a movable interest separate and apart from the 
physical is, of itself, sufficient evidence of quite an- 
other set of articulating devices ; and that they rep- 
resent a more equisite focal-point. It is one of the 
tragedies of civilization that our educational insti- 
tutions, both secular and religious, have entirely 
misunderstood both the principles and the effects of 
the distinctions noted. It shows and it proves a 
lack of thinking and working depth and comprehen- 
sion of the great game man is privileged to play, as 
well as of the great focal-point which has been 
especially provided that man might make his act 
and his thought intelligible. 

Without the distinctions that exist between voice 
and speech we may appeal in prayer to the saints 
of heaven and those who dwell in its opposite; but 
we will never reap any other vision than that 
which is attached to the derivations of voice — as 
used. We may pay good hard-earned money to our 
parish priest and our parish minister for the for- 
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overcome a limitation of vision which we auto- 
matically derive from our present use of the one or 
more mentioned positions of voice if we do not care- 
fully exercise the distinctions which exist between 
voice and speech. We may employ all the finely 
textured and artificially conceived phrases of lan- 
guage forms; we may employ letter, syllable, word 
and sentence forms to the limit; we may have at 
our command the finest of diction and other ele- 
ments of an artificial presentation of that which we 
have in mind, but even these will get us nowhere 
(as far as spiritual sensibilities are directly con- 
cerned) if we do not have the distinctions as noted 
above at our command. For man has yet to realize 
that the best he has represents nothing more nor 
less than fragments of a great underlying form of 
expression which, could he ever find its original 
elementary value would enable him to find an abso- 
lute freedom in an exercise of the privileges vested 
in the great game of life. But man is the victitm of 
his own cleverness. He is now paying the price 
which all must pay for not having at his command 
the distinctions necessary to make his act and his 
thought intelligible. 

As he is not acquainted with these distinctions 
he cannot select the type of sound-form best suited 
to carry^on his intention vocally. He actually has 
to depend upon physical force to put "pep" and 
"meaning" into his use of voice. He actually does 
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fidence and a thousand and one other elements 
which we designate as human, as he has little with 
which these may be safely, sanely and soundly re- 
leased. He has had resource to technical means of 
expression. But upon strict examination these are 
found to so violate a fundamental principle of im- 
pression and expression — a perfect physical co-or- 
dination and an action in harmony with spirit — that 
they are stupid in construction and in application. 
If the layman would discover why man is in such a 
plight of articulation and why his istruction con- 
cerning voice violates the fundamental principle of 
impression and expression, all he needs to do is to 
examine a textbook on pronunciation for speakers 
and singers. There he will find a most extraordin- 
ary offering. As direct evidence I offer the follow- 
ing examples of vocal efficiency. They are taken 
from one of the most famous textbooks ; one that is 
known through the English speaking world as rep- 
resenting the best exposition of pronunciation for 
speakers and singers. It asks the student-world to 
articulate : 

Vocation — pronounced as if spelled vokai'shen. 
Question — pronounced as if spelled kwest'yen. 
Innocent — pronounced as if spelled in'oasent. 
Likewise — pronounced as if spelled lei'kweiz. 
Assuring — pronounced as if spelled asheu'rr'ing. 

There is no attempt to deny that the author of 
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was struggling to give them utterance. For it is 
certain that he would not have so deliberately sug- 
gested and taught such an incomprehensible spell- 
ing and pronunciation of the words quoted if he 
had not. They give evidence, however, as having 
been sensed as physical disabilities rather than as 
containing a distinction between physical and 
spiritual sensibilities. They distinctly !show an 
attempt to technically circumvent these physical 
disabilities. But it is deception — not at all meant, 
however, for the author should be given credit for 
his endeavor to reach the distinctions which he so 
evidently sensed. Someone has woefully mangled 
harmonic possibilities. For by what strange twist 
of technic could a healthy-minded person consent to 
such a manipulation of the articulating devices, 
both mental and physical. The above quoted are ex- 
amples of "proper pronunciation" for speakers and 
singers which no student could accomplish without 
getting word-bound, muscle-bound, nervously con- 
stricted and intellectually restricted. It would seem 
certain, too, that such a process of teaching pro- 
nunciation is devoid of harmonic insight and experi- 
ence. It would also seem revealed as a deliber- 
ately formed intellectual attempt to avoid a vocal 
distress which apparently lies deeper than mere sur- 
face conditions. Unfortunately the majority of the 
human race are so steeped in such a process of pro- 
nunciation that they are accustomed to measuring 
everything they see, feel and otherwise sense in that 
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muscle, nerve and intellect to such processes that 
they immediately grab at it, believing it perfectly 
correct and justifiable. But it clashes with the eye 
— that is the eye sees one thing while the mechan- 
ism struggles to do another. Because the finer 
sensibilities are not sufficiently aroused they yield 
to the physical and the mind automatically follows 
the action of the physical. Under such circum- 
stances, vision must inevitably fail of its original 
purpose. 

Such a teaching of pronunciation is a confession 
that man is unable to hold in vocal motion an im- 
pression. It is a confession that the vocal cul- 
turist has been unable to avoid what may be termed 
a "disappearing act" of articulation and its influence 
upon mental states. This means that man has to 
continually fight his mechanism. It means, of 
course, that he is not permitting the physical mech- 
anism to mind the business of its purpose, which is 
— to adapt its action to whatever is in mind, taking 
form according to its color-scheme, and supporting 
it in vocal motion. However, if the student would 
put his articulation of sound-forms, letter, syllable, 
word and sentence forms upon that focal-point 
which has been designated as Resonance, there 
would be no difficulty. The physical would auto- 
matically take its position and would willingly mind 
the business of its purpose. Every phase, even to 
the minutest fragment, of the color-scheme of the 
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for. There would be no loss. The whole act would 
become vocal conviction and vocal honesty. 

It has been stated (and it is generally believed) 
that all voice or speech sound "are produced by im- 
itation." But this is not at all true for, scientifically 
speaking, the so-called imitation is a struggle of the 
infant, child and adult to at least intuitively attend 
to the formulating period which, properly focused 
and in action, would release the impression in mind. 
But this has been defeated by the physical measure 
of human potentiality which has been forced upon 
the human race. The physical difficulties of vocal 
rights of articulation have been tabulated as vowels, 
vowel glides, consonants, whispered consonants, 
Mated consonants, consonental diphthongs, buzzes, 
lateral buzzes, trilled buzzes, mutes, shut mutes, 
hisses, central hisses, lip-trilled hisses, hums, shut 
hums, glides, implodents, murmurs, croaks, bleats, 
wheezes, jerks, cheks, glottids, clear glottids, triph- 
thongs, vanishes, flaps, clicks, snorts, shut snorts — 
and there is no doubt that these have been increased 
in the last decade. But all these mean is that each 
physical position of the articulation of sound pro- 
duced has been physically located. To teach it, 
however, as the acme of vocal perfection is brutal, 
as it only exhibits a difficulty of articulation which 
lies in a confusion of the mental with the physical, 
a condition which does not permit either the mental 
or the physical to mind the business of their pur- 
pose. Any one submitting to the above is certain 
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of articulation. The mechanism of the physical is 
so delicately adjusted to the impression in mind 
that it will take on whatever color-scheme is neces- 
sary to release the impression. The elements which 
give sound, or voice, value — are beyond the physi- 
cal. They are elements which only the mental may 
uncover, unravel and unfold. Voice is not alone a 
determinant of modes of physical expression. It is 
a determinant of impression — its reception, reten- 
tion (holding in vocal motion) and its release. 

THE STILL SMALL VOICE. 

The only reason this phase of voice may be 
called the "still, small voice" is because it has never 
been properly opened to man's use. It cannot yield 
its purpose as long as it is physically restricted. 
It, however, represents the far end of the UN- 
BROKEN ARTICULATING ROUTE between 
the physical and spiritual departments of man. It 
is elusive and obscure because man has never 
reached its action and purpose in due form. As it 
is, in many ways, a selector as well as a censor of 
fine modes of expression, it is, perhaps, the most in- 
tangible of human rights of articulation. But its 
purpose and its function is not a determinant of 
fancy, mood or mystery, nor is it the result of an 
echo — a memory which is kept alive by organic 
repetition. It represents a definite field of action 
which is directly associated with spirit. It is alone 
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impellent. It has, however, been brutally dislodged 
from its original lofty estate — as it has been mod- 
eled upon an impulse which proceeds from and 
which is exercised by physical terms of expres- 
sion. 

But, of itself, what a truly wonderful instrument 
of expression it is ! 

What a magnificent element of articulating com- 
fort it may become ! 

What a splendid source of information, clear in 
harmonic texture, structure and flexibility it may 
become! It leads us with vast vision to fields of 
impression and expression far from the noisy bom- 
bastic physical, and in some instances is far superior 
to the spiritual field in which it apparently works. 
It would seem far superior to both the physical and 
the spiritual, as it would appear attached to heights 
far beyond the investitution of these. With it in ac- 
tion we have every right to assume that we have 
been truly "Made In His Image;" that this state- 
ment really means something after all. 

We fall back upon its action and its province to 
avoid a physical interference, and sometimes we 
call upon it to help us to avoid an intellectual and 
spiritual interference as well. We lay hold of its 
action to help us to analyze our difficulties as we 
think and as we work in the great garden of the uni- 
verse. We depend upon its action and its province to 
help us to solve .our dreams and our visions, and we 
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for them. Then some of us stupidly term its ac- 
tion and its province obscure and quite impos- 
sible for a healthy-minded intelligent human being. 
We turn to our vaunted hunch which we hope to 
glorify as an inspiration by putting it into the place 
of our "still small voice." Yet its very nature pro- 
claims its action and its province — as the one 
"Holy of Holies" existing. It is this in spite of 
our stating that its action and its province are too 
obscure for an intelligent human being to give them 
undivided attention. However, we find it, in our 
physical moments of relaxation and after we have 
retired at night, chattering to us and sometimes for 
us — as we have no direct working knowledge of 
its function and the uses to which this may be 
put. It is, usually, totally oblivious to our phy- 
sical fatigue. It apparently takes no account of 
our tired bodies and goes merrily on reviewing the 
incidents of the day past, offering us a solution 
which we, under the ordinary everyday environment 
and its pressure, cannot catch because we have no 
immediate command or control of its sensibility and 
function. We would give our last bit if we could 
remember what was said to us by our "still small 
voice" in these periods of its activity, but it has 
floated off to the silent realms somewhere — who 
knows? On the morning following it creeps from 
its hiding place again to remind us of its existence 
and we again treat it as if it were a stranger-voice, 
mysterious and incomprehensible in its action, its 
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however, that in such an act as above outlined, it is 
entirely separate and apart from the physical. It 
gives its evidence, too, that man was originally 
designed as an independent individual unit (at 
least in a spiritual, or mental, sense) capable of 
articulating upon an increase of harmonic advan- 
tages, and as each appear in sequence and order. 

Yet — there are few who know the full comfort 
of its function. 

There are few yet who know definitely its im- 
mortal attachment. 

There are indeed few who recognize in its action 
and in its province elements with which the great 
game of life may be played — and played upon a 
plane far removed from the physical. There are 
few who actually know or who have any inkling that 
its action actually represents the far end of an orig- 
inal UNBROKEN ARTICULATING ROUTE be- 
tween the physical and spiritual, and we may solve 
the so-called enigmas of the game of life and its 
living by its means. It most assuredly is true that 
if we could ever free its function from the present 
dominating influence of the physical, we would be 
in direct touch with and in command of immortal 
impression and expression. Had the majority of 
the human race a full thinking and working knowl- 
edge of its function and attachment, the present 
world crisis, with all its horrors, would not have 
been possible. Because of our lack of knowledge 
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the so-called wickedness of the human race. For 
it is undoubted that if the physical domination 
with which we are compelled to exercise its func- 
tion were taken away, we would find life in all its 
clear vision wonderfully outlined and ready for 
action. We would find life so differently poised 
and exposed that we would consider it absolutely 
necessary to put into it the very best we had. We 
would find the reasons for the so-called wicked- 
ness of the human race in a deep-seated desire to 
get somewhere and, in not having possession of a 
focal-point sufficient in dimensions to accomplish 
the desire, man yields to what seems to promise an 
immediate response — be it what it may. Man has, 
too, a deep-seated sense of dissatisfaction over the 
apparent loss of an indefinable something; and as 
he has few to whom he may go for guidance and 
upon whom he may depend for instruction, he 
goes dissatisfied through life. But, in spite of his 
act and thought, there yet remains the "still small 
voice," his stranger-voice which he does not under- 
stand and to which he cannot therefore legiti- 
mately appeal in times of physical and mental dis- 
tress. Give him a normally right working relation 
to its function and he will adjust himself (auto- 
matically sometimes) to the advantages he is to 
find in playing the great game of life and its liv- 
ing. The right to sense enormous advantages is 
imbedded in the function of the "still small voice." 
It is so intimately associated to the activities of 
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physical, that no man would willingly go back 
upon rights vested in the "still small voice." 

It would appear undoubted, too, that prayer was 
originally intended as an appeal to the function of 
the "still small voice" — forcing, as it were, the 
attention of the individuals engaged in prayer to the 
function and the province of the "still small voice." 
It would at least arouse the attention of the multi- 
tudes to an act which apparently was quite beside 
any other use of voice. At any rate, this would 
seem to be the actual result of prayer if it were ever 
given its just and due consideration as an act 
worthy intelligent men, women and children. It 
would appear, too, that the act of prayer had been 
seized and interned and made to do service to carry 
on the most nefarious business in all the world — 
institutional control of the multitudes, not, how- 
ever, for the good of the multitudes but for the good 
of the institution. Instead of its being forged into 
a real business proposition wherewith man may 
acquaint himself with spiritual interests, it has been 
turned into a most gruesome act. And aided and 
abetted by the ecclesiastic, man has been taught to 
emulate the Ostrich who, to protect himself from 
some fancied danger, deliberately thrusts his head 
into the sands. But there is this difference between 
man and the Ostrich. The Ostrich has rich plum- 
age to wig-wag his message to the skies for pro- 
tection. Man has no such rich plumage. He has 
only his head which he has thrust into the sands — 

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per instruction. If intelligent men and women 
can honestly hope to secure a clear vision of the 
purpose of the Creator upon the earth and apply 
it to their spiritual wants with their heads buried 
in the sands, the human race is certainly lost to 
any sense of decency concerning the attitude neces- 
sary to prayer — and with which they may defi- 
nitely hope to open to their use the function of the 
"still small voice." It took ages for Nature to 
produce an individual who could STAND UP- 
RIGHT facing the Creator as if he were "Made 
In His Image." It has taken the ecclesiastic but 
a short time (in comparison) to reduce man to the 
position of the animal, before mentioned. 

The function of the "still small voice" is to re- 
lease spiritual values and spiritual interest. When 
it is rightly focused and rightly articulated it 
yields inestimable results, as man is the heir to 
the activities of the universe which exist that he 
may have life more abundantly. Yet all sorts of 
technical tricks have been used to unfold its func- 
tion and make clear its province. In man's effort to 
uncover, unravel and unfold its function he has 
met with very serious obstacles, chief of which 
has been the ever present and self-appointed guard- 
ian of human morals — the ecclesiastic. He, true 
to his purpose and type, has assiduously taught that 
the "still small voice" was the voice of our individ- 
ual and particular guardian Angel. And — "hands 
off, please." God and his ministering Angels were 
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clay, we unregenerate individuals, born in sin and 
wickedness, had no right to even think we coukf. 
question, much less interpret, the mission andl 
the work of God and His ministering Angels. Fur- 
ther, it was an unmitigated insult to God and His; 
Angels for us to try to solve the so-called mystery 
of the "still small voice." Besides, this middle place 
somewhere in our heads which buzzed to us con- 
tinually its message was sacred by virtue of God's 
willingness to visit us on errands of mercy and good 
will with which, if we behaved ourselves, we might 
become worthy good folk of civilization — and of the 
church. Can it be possible that the ecclesiastic did 
not want those committed to his spiritual care to 
definitely know the function of the "still small 
voice?" Can it be possible that even he was so 
stupid as not to recognize its value to the individ- 
uals of the human race and to civilization? Is it 
possible that he and the institution which he repre- 
sents did not want the multitudes to definitely ex- 
ercise the only available element with which the 
far end of man's UNBROKEN ARTICULATING 
ROUTE between the physical and spiritual depart- 
ments of man might be uncovered, unraveled and 
unfolded for man's benefit, pleasure and profit. Was 
he fearful that his reading of the potentialities of 
human kind and of the power of God would be 
broadened ; made more healthy, both physically and 
spiritually? Was he really fearful of a possible dis- 
ruption of his coveted goal — the control of man, if 
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rights of articulation especially enveloped in this 
most wonderful of all phases of voice, the "still 
small voice?" If so, he has done enough damage to 
the individuals of the human race and to civiliza- 
tion. His control must be replaced by newer stand- 
ards of health — physical, mental, spiritual, intellec- 
tual and psychical. He and his institutions must no 
longer be permitted to strangle the only evidence 
that man is intimately associated to the purpose of 
the Creator upon the earth. And fortunately this is 
taking place, for the multitudes are even now be- 
ginning to realize that they, too, each individual 
unit, have been "Made In His Image," and that they 
must play the game of life in the light of that reali- 
zation. They are at last awakening to the fact that 
they, too, have been born to possess the land in 
which has been vested the mighty confluence of 
Nature's interests of impression and expression; 
and that these events of Nature are and as far as 
man is concerned may be revealed in voice — as an 
UNBROKEN ARTICULATING ROUTE be- 
tween the physical and mental departments of man. 
That is in arousing the mental equivalent of the 
physical act man has at his command an action 
superior in every way to the physical manifestation 
of the game of life and its living. Of course the 
ecclesiastic was talking for himself and the institu- 
tion which he represented. He was promulgating 
the theory that he alone, as a representative of his 
institution, had a right to state what was and what 
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function of the "still small voice" — more particularly 
the attitude of prayer. But it was ever thus. Man has 
ever had to fight for the most interesting and the 
most vital of his rights of articulation. Institution- 
alism has ever taken advantage of the helplessness 
of the multitudes — and it can only take advantage 
because of the general lack of knowledge concern- 
ing Nature's original investitution for man's benefit, 
pleasure and profit. Man has ever had his most 
vital articulating asset stifled, smothered and later 
prepared for the drying process which would in due 
time slow him up, make him physically and men- 
tally stale and wholly unable to sense and to use 
the function of the "still small voice." 

Pitiable — of course! 

Wicked — worse than that, for it may be charac- 
terized as the crime of crimes. It explains, too — 
at least in part — why the majority of the human 
race are simple-minded folk in texture and not 
forceful dynamic articulators of the activities of the 
universe, which exist that man may live and have 
life more abundantly. 

An individual possessed with a clear and ringing 
"still small voice," which he moves upon his own 
initiative (regardless of its physical imprisonment), 
is on the road to a glorious sensibility, to which all 
else is as nothing in comparison. He is on the road 
to a liberty of initiative which is of inestimable value 
and comfort to him. He has approached and has 
entered the one and only "Holy of Holies" extant; 
the one and only evidence of heavenly estates; the 

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one and only resident palace of the "real presence" 
with which noble deeds, excellent in eminence, are 
felt and set in motion. It is ever new, ever virile 
and ever free from traditional influences. It in 
every way foretells an increase of originality of im- 
pression and expression. It seldom reverts to mere 
copy. It ever looks forward hopefully and trust- 
ingly, serving as the most advanced listening post 
on the great frontier; the great front trench of life 
and its living. 

When the time comes for the great parting of 
the ways — the dissolution of the physical in- 
strument in which he first found his right to its 
function, he is not at all fearful of what is taking 
place. To him it represents "traveling in foreign 
countries" in the sense that it is now free from the 
purely physical, for he has it so strongly forged 
that he eagerly watches the ticking of time with 
which the life of the physical is measured, knowing 
full well that the goal is just ahead. He is not at 
all apprehensive of the result, for he has been suffi- 
ciently forewarned and fore armed — having had ex- 
periences of sufficient dimensions therein and there- 
to. And so he welcomes the coming change of his 
environment because he knows that he is to emerge 
at the other end (the far end), to be no more 
bothered with the limitations of the physical with 
which he had so long to contend. 

The evolutionary effort of Nature to produce a 
perfectly balanced individual capable of sensing 

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and of articulating the privileges of life offer inter- 
esting data to which we may well pay attention. 
For instance, the apparent ability of some of the 
animal kingdom to communicate with each other 
telepathically, so to speak, has occupied the atten- 
tion of the scientist. It has been so well estab- 
lished that they can communicate with each other 
without the use of sound it needs no corroboration. 
It has been called telepathy and the faculty, if it 
can be so termed, seems to belong to the great chain 
of events which Nature gradually released to the 
creatures of the earth, and which by virtue of its 
attachment to the purpose of the Creator on the 
earth, ought to find its consummation in the human 
organization. But for some unknown reason when 
the human organization is reached, the right of tele- 
pathic power is lost — except to the very few. And 
it only survives in what we term intuition. 

That it still exists is unquestioned. That it is 
apparently lost is due to the fact that we have not 
righly opened our mental states, its action as a 
separate articulating right from the physical, the 
place where the "still small voice" persists. We 
will not recover this power until we forge our men- 
tal states and our sensibilities upon the one and only 
straight and narrow path — a perfect physical co-or- 
dination and an action in harmony with spirit. We 
will not recover this power until we forge our vision 
upon the one and only focal-point designed and re- 
leased by the Creator for that purpose. 

What an absurd plight of articulation to be in! 
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We have been provided with means for infor- 
mation and communication far beyond our present 
conception of the purpose of the great game of life 
and its living. We have had the means provided 
to search the great spaces of the earth and the 
universe, with a direct promise of legitimate re- 
sults. Because we have confused the mental with 
the physical we are unable to exercise the original 
rights released by the Creator to man that he 
might make his act and his thought intelligible. 
We are unable to bring the finer forces of the uni- 
verse under our command because we lack a phy- 
sical co-ordination and an action in harmony with 
spirit. Absurd, is it not! 

There is sufficient evidence, too, that the "still, 
small voice" was originally intended as visual evi- 
dence of continuity of life after physical death. 
And that it was ever to be on guard in and out of 
sleep; that man was to find in it a well established 
right to function on what is termed the spiritual 
plane. When we are able to free its function from 
its present physical interference and domination, 
and use it according to its original purpose, we will 
solve the so-called enigmas of life. We will be able 
to penetrate the depths of the universe to such an 
extent that we shall know what is taking place, 
even to hearing the voices of the so-called dead. In- 
deed, we now have mechanical instruments which 
will so amplify a sound-form that when a fly walks 
across the resonator the sound produced is loud 
enough to cause distress to the ear. There is no 

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doubt but that in time we shall devise an instru- 
ment of sufficient sensitiveness to penetrate what 
are now silent spaces of the universe, giving direct 
information of what is taking place. We had much 
better, however, arouse the function of the "still, 
small voice." For in it we have an instrumentation 
released by the Creator. We do not therefore have 
to depend upon any mechanical instrument for in- 
formation and communication with the great spaces 
of the universe. When we are able to do so we 
shall then be in position to sense, hear and bring 
within human limitations all the activities of the 
universe. We shall then be in position to command 
those activities of the universe which do not or- 
dinarily appear in the physical. And there will be 
less chance for error and confusion. 

It is well known that the ancient Hirerophants, 
Sages, Prophets and what not — especially those 
who claimed to get messages from the other world 
during sleep and in a use of "stunts of Alchemy" 
did so by virtue of an enforced let up of muscular 
tension, nervous constriction and intellectual re- 
striction, all of which seriously interferes with clear 
vision. To claim, however, that these men were in 
direct communication with God is, to my mind, ab- 
surd. Further, if God would and only could com- 
municate with His creatures in a violation of phys- 
ical rights of expression, there is something radi- 
cally wrong. And we had better seek a more whole- 
some process of communication and information. 
We had better seek a more wholesome way to 

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unfold human power and the reading of the power 
of God. 

Of course this process of stifling the physical is 
only removed by a degree from some of our modern 
isms, and cults which claim spirit to be real and the 
physical unreal; that material is an illusion and all 
things exist only in spirit. There is no question but 
that chasing spirit is a fascinating phase of the 
great game of life. But it is apparent that if the 
Creator did release a focal-point upon which all 
men can agree is — a perfect physical co-ordination 
and an action in harmony with spirit, we have 
hardly the right to violate it. If we do violate its 
function we can expect to be led to physical and 
spiritual frenzy. And as the physician puts it — it is 
a nerve racking phase of the game of life, sufficient 
to drive men crazy. 

A full and complete answer to the problems of 
the game of life will only be attained when we are 
able to release the function of the "still small voice" 
to its original purpose. As it not only represents a 
right of articulation vested in what is termed tele- 
pathic powers, but it will, undoubtedly, bring to the 
surface the function and purpose of what has been 
termed intuition. As intuition is a mighty power, 
buried as it is, what will it be when it is brought 
to the surface, cleared of the fog in which it is now 
obscured ! 

For downright gullibility this 20th century has 
nothing on our primitive fathers concerning the 
function of the "still small voice." The majority 

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of the human race are confronted with a thoroughly 
mystifying stranger-voice which they do not under- 
stand and which they cannot legitimately handle 
and use. They still go through life haunted with an 
incomprehensible fear of the mysterious, the alto- 
gather impossible and with a subtle sense of the 
obscure in which this greatest focal-point is sup- 
posedly clothed. They still worship at the ances- 
tral shrine of mystery, super-naturalism, and God 
alone knows what else. They still are awed at a 
Name pronounced by men who cannot definitely 
hold an impression in vocal motion because they 
have not at their command fundamental physical 
and mental health standards sufficient and neces- 
sary to its articulation. They still have a haunting 
fear which overpowers their sensory apparatus in 
general; and because of it they cannot exercise a 
measure of human endeavor worthy men who have 
been "Made In His Image." 

The man who is possessed with a clear-ringing 
"still small voice" is able to pass on, not to the dark 
mysterious midnight, but to the glorious sunlight 
of eternal youth. He has solved the great enigma 
(so-called) of life and its living. 

Of such is the "still small voice" and its func- 
tion. 

Its consummation — as the far end of man's orig- 
inal UNBROKEN ARTICULATING ROUTE— 
is: 

Man — glorified in the activities of the universe. 

The activities of the universe — glorified in MAN. 
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And so, Man — in the finality of physical life, re- 
turns to his ancestral home, the haven from whence 
he came, in full possession of all his rights of articu- 
lation and with which he is able to proceed to yet 
greater heights, greater visions and on out to an in- 
finity of which we, who yet live in the physical and 
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Voice, primarily, is physical sound — minus 
tonality. 

Speech is Voice — plus tonality. 

Thinking automatically becomes a simple act 
when we associate the physical act with spirit, and 
have the forces of each at our command. 

Thinking is simple. 

It is another instance of the Creator's care in pro- 
viding the essentials with which man is to play the 
great game of life and its living, and that he may 
find interests which he can use to establish, protect 
and preserve his identity as a unit of the earth and 
of the universe. 

Man has the physical machinery with which to 
perform the act, a machinery so delicately adjusted 
to its purpose that it will take on the minutest frag- 
ment of the impression in mind. 

He has the mental equivalent with which to 
associate himself with those activities of the 
universe which do not ordinarily appear in the 
physical. 

The ability to translate an impression into mental 
and physical terms of expression is all that think- 
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All that is required to correctly perform the act 
is — a perfect physical co-ordination and an action 
in harmony with spirit. 

This holds good in all branches of human en- 
deavor — whether in digging a sewer or in writing 
a thesis on reason. 

We may call to our aid any phase of life and its 
living; we may call to our aid logic, philosophy, 
science; in fact everything that man has accom- 
plished, but this one fact holds good — man gets his 
supply, his material, from impressions, and to make 
them serviceable; to bring them within reach, he 
must translate them into mental and physical terms 
of expression. 

Thinking is largely automatic. 

That is, man automatically receives material with 
which to perform the act. He automatically re- 
ceives and responds to an impulse, the creative base 
of which is an impression. But because he auto- 
matically receives and responds to an impulse it by 
no means indicates that he is to forever remain 
under the dominion of the automatic precision of 
what is termed natural law. Indeed when he begins 
to exercise a right found in his volitional powers, 
he gets a better, more wholesome sense, interpre- 
tation and articulation of his impressions. 

He has, however, so involved his physical 
mechanism with spirit that it is now exceedingly 
difficult for him to definitely determine and place 
an impression in mental and physical action with- 

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out damage to its original purity and excellence of 
purpose. There are two factors which stand be- 
tween man and simplicity in the act. These are: 

1. Man has no dependable sense of physical 
values. What he thinks he possesses will not with- 
stand the acid test of physical co-ordination. 

2. Man has no dependable sense of spiritual 
values. Without a physical co-ordination it is im- 
possible to get a true vision and use of the activities 
of the spiritual realms of the universe. 

The whole of the act of correct thinking is based 
therefore upon one postulate — a perfect physical 
co-ordination and an action in harmony with spirit. 
This gives two essentials necessary to the act, 
namely : 

1. A sense of security which man derives from 
an ability of the physical to strictly mind the busi- 
ness of its purpose, and that is to adapt its action 
with spirit — supporting it in physical motion. 

2. A sense of freedom which man derives from 
the same and which enables him to get spontaneous 
action from the physical and the spiritual, per- 
mitting him to devote his entire attention to find- 
ing and employing those activities of the universe 
which have been especially reserved for such an 
action, and upon which is to rest his identity as a 
unit of the earth and of the universe. 

Although there is every evidence that man was 
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natal and other influences, a right which would 
enable him to sense the security of physical co- 
ordination, he does not receive it. 

Although there is every evidence that he was 
intended to receive a mental, or spiritual, birth free 
from prenatal and other influences, a right which 
is associated with his initiative as a unit of the 
earth and of the universe, a right which would 
permit him to seek and to employ those activities 
of the universe which do not ordinarily appear in 
the physical, he does not receive it. 

He is, rather, the victim of the ages past. Every 
habit established by the ages, physical, mental, 
spiritual, intellectual and even the thought con- 
cerning the psychical (or soul) element of human 
nature, has been deeply ingrained into the very 
substance of his being. When he begins an effort 
of self-determination he is confronted with these 
habits and they mightily influence him. As they 
come from the deep recesses of his being and have 
attached to them a distinct flavor of familiarity, he 
readily yields his (original) sovereign rights to 
them. As he is not aware that he has such rights 
he is most unfortunate in his sense and measure 
of the great game he is privileged to play. 

It is generally believed that man employs the 
content of his mind in the act of thinking. This is 
only partly true, for mind is made up of experi- 
ences gathered from contact with the universe and 
which have been mentally and physically translated 
to do service for mankind. He is therefore up 

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against the type of mental food-stuff that has been 
imposed upon him, in which his interest in slight. 
He is up against the activities of the universe in 
their original purity and excellence which warn him 
(unconsciously — as far as he is concerned) of the 
fact that he violates his original right to play the 
game of life and its living. He gets this warning 
in the constant clashing of his modes of vocal 
utterance with the intention of his impression. He 
is therefore up against the habits of human mind 
based upon a translation of an impression that has 
been mechanically "set" and which makes up the 
greater part of man's mental activities. He thus 
automatically denies himself a right of harmonic 
increase which would further illumine his so-called 
thought. 

It might be of interest for me to state what I be- 
lieve are the actual forces of man with which he is 
to find himself able to sense and to translate an 
impression in such a manner that it shall become 
potential power in him. 

First the physical — a gift from the Creator. A 
gift that has back of its building the confidence of 
the Creator that it will, at least, automatically mind 
the business of its purpose — which is, to release the 
next in sequence, spirit. I do not believe the physi- 
cal organization of man would have been released 
unless the Creator had had faith in it. To there- 
fore define it — as do some of our modern isms, cults 

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and religions — as an illusion is — to my mind — most 
unfortunate. How anyone can and dare deny the 
existence of the very instrument that gave man the 
right to sense — much more, to use — spirit, is be- 
yond comprehension. Of course, in the exercise of 
spirit, man is actually attending to the purpose of 
the great game of life and its living, and it is a de- 
lightful phase of life. But that it should have led 
some to declare that "God Is Spirit" proves (to my 
mind) that there is something radically wrong in 
the exercise of spirit. For my own part I dislike to 
think of confining the Creator (or God, as He is 
sometimes called) to spirit. It might possibly be 
so. But in comparison with the immensity of the 
universe and according to modern scientific re- 
search and revelation of the workings of the earth 
and of the universe, it seems to me that to confine 
God to spirit is penurious of harmonic interests and 
insight. 

Second, the mental equivalent of the physical 
act, in which is vested an action that tops the 
physical manifestation of the Creator's purpose on 
the earth and in the universe. In it man is to find 
an action which definitely relates him to those 
activities of the universe which do not ordinarily 
appear in the physical. In it he is to find an 
action which proves that he is more than "a mem- 
ory which was, is, and is to come." For he has at 
his command the very essence of the substance of 
the universe with which he may determine from 
whence he came, what he is, and at the same time 

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practically determine his so-called destiny. In the 
action vested in his mental equivalent he has com- 
mand of resources that prove he is more than a 
dream, an echo of the physical act, more than a 
shimmering fancy, a flash which stays with him 
for a second or two after the physical act to fade 
away unless kept alive by organic repetition. 

In this action man is to find what is usually 
termed mind. He is to find that mind is a great 
reservoir, a place where impressions, after being 
translated, may be put for future reference and 
use. Mind is, therefore, the holding concern of 
the game of life. It gets direct action by virtue 
of the "still small voice," a phase of voice which 
in its relation to those activities of the universe 
which do not ordinarily appear in the physical, 
corresponds to the purpose of voice on the physi- 
cal plane. This, of course, means that every man 
has sufficient evidence at his command — at least 
he has that possibility— that he lives separate and 
apart from the physical. 

The mind of man has, in my opinion, an orig- 
inal capacity limited only by wh^t h in the uni- 
verse. The action with which mind is created 
always preceeds man, surrounds him and leads him 
on to greater achievement. I cannot, therefore, 
believe in what is commonly termed "divine mind," 
for this is an admission that the one willing to 
accent such a translation of the purpose of mind 
is penurious of actual harmonic interests and ac- 
tion. It is an admission that he is unable to fol- 

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low and make use of the law of harmonic increase ; 
that law which was especially released that man 
might more and more make his act and his thought 
intellligible. And to accomplish the purpose of the 
Creator in man, upon the earth and in the uni- 
verse. 

That "mind over matter" should be used to cure 
disease is quite beside the actual facts in the case. 
After all, the one using "mind over matter" is only 
struggling with physical conditions which are ab- 
normal, alse he would not have to dislodge his in- 
tellectual powers from their position in the scheme 
of impression and expression to force the physical 
action to mind the business of its purpose. 

The determiant of the stamina of mind is there- 
fore of the condition of the physical articulating 
devices. Its quality and its quantity are likewise 
a determinant of the physical articulating devices. 

While it is true that one may sustain himself 
against invasion from physical disabilities for some 
length of time by an exercise of will power, it is 
foreign to the purpose of the physical act and its 
mental equivalent. And, where persisted in, can 
only lead to a confusion of impulses which seri- 
ously affect the whole scheme of impression and 
expression. 

In connection with this phase of the thought 
concerning mind, it is pertinent to observe that 
we have been taught that confirmation, medita- 
tion, cogitation, star-gazing, introspection (some- 
times), day-dreaming, placing ourselves "in tune 

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with the infinite," entering the silence, and a host 
of other so-called attitudes, including the act of 
prayer, was thinking. But all that such states 
accomplish is to help man to seek that line of de- 
marcation which exists between the two great 
worlds in which he is privileged to play the great 
game of life and its living. 

Thinking is positive. The above-mentioned are 
in large part negative. They merely help man to 
seek that feeling of physical comfort which en- 
ables him to strictly attend to the business of 
impression and expression. 

When we are able to command action upon this 
line of demarcation we will find that both the 
physical and the action vested in the mental equiva- 
lent are ready to spring to action upon the slight- 
est demand. And it is an experience which alone 
enables us to attain truth, or the reality of the 
unseen. If we have to employ mind to cure dis- 
ease, it proves two things, namely — first, we have 
not a physical birth free from prenatal and other 
influences; and second, we have not a spiritual 
birth free from prenatal and other influences. 

Owing to what has been deeply ingrained into 
the very substance of our beings, we, as a human 
race, are so sophisticated that we cannot sense the 
obvious. We are sophisticated because we have 
been smothered. Because we have been smoth- 
ered we are compelled to fall back upon what we 
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and the purpose of them. That is, we depend 
upon what impressions we have, laying one against 
another to determine, if we can, what the next in 
sequence ought to be. As we do not analyze the 
manner in which our impressions have been regis- 
tered and made part of our being, we are under a 
constant reservation. We, while under this reser- 
vation, cannot and we do not get to the purpose 
of our impressions. 

The composite of mental states is the determi- 
nant of spirituality. The determinant of the qual- 
ity of spirituality is the manner in which the 
mental equivalent of the physical act is aroused 
and set in motion. I do not, therefore, give spiritu- 
ality the mystical setting it has received from 
Occult Science and its 20th centurv successors, 
the isms, cults, religions and ecclesiastical doc- 
trines of belief. I do not believe it is an especial 
dispensation from the Creator released to man 
through the self-appointed authorities of the re- 
ligions with which m?*n has been afflicted. I be- 
lieve, on the contrary, that it is a condition of 
physical and mental terms of expression t^at V.00 
to be fought for. And that the determinant of its 
stamina, fruitfulness and usefulness is an interest 
entirely found in a correct use of rights of im- 
pression and expression. 

As I believe that in the "still small voice" man 
has a means of information and communication 

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with the so-called spiritual realms of the universe, 
I do not question the existence of a spiritual world, 
separate and apart from the physical. 

As there is every evidence that man, in his use 
of voice as an UNBROKEN ARTICULATING 
ROUTE between the physical and mental (or 
spiritual) departments of his organization, has 
failed to realize its purpose, I can see no reason 
why he should accept the laborious and cumber- 
some methods employed by Occult Science and 
its modern successors, the isms, cults, religions and 
ecclesiastical doctrines of belief, to induce heavenly 
estates which, after all, merely mean a struggle to 
become decently human — that and nothing more. 

I believe that while the spiritual department of 
the universe is very near to man, it is very far 
removed from what we have been taught concern- 
ing its place in the scheme of life and its living. 
I believe, therefore, that we have every right to 
protest against continuing a thought concerning 
such a vital interest to the human race, a thought 
which I believe has been wrongly postulated. 
Particularly as it is concerned with an original 
right to sense, interpret, translate and articulate 
those activities of the universe which do not ordi- 
narily appear in the physical. And which appar- 
ently have been released that man might establish, 
protect and preserve his identity as a unit of the 
earth and of the universe. 

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Third, the intellectual — which I believe is man's 
first try-out (so to speak) to determine whether he 
will be a responsible unit of the earth and of the 
universe in using those activities of the universe 
which represent power behind his physical act. 
Further, it is associated with his volitional powers, 
which in action remove him from the dominion of 
the automatic precision of natural law. So far, 
and according to the evidence found in the present 
plight of articulation of the human race, he has 
not proven himself eligible to use this power; for 
he has practically turned every sense of power he 
possesses against his fellows, and not for the bene- 
fit, pleasure and profit of the human race. This 
is to be particularly noted in the numberless 
volumes that have been written concerning the use 
of man's volitional powers. In practically eVery 
volume there is a chapter devoted to explaining 
"How to induce Personality," "How to impose my 
will upon others," "How to get what you want," 
"How to increase your income from $2.00 per da^ 
to $200.00 per day," and always at the expense of 
the other fellows. 

The intellectual, of course, is a determinant of 
the mental states of man. It is further reinforced 
by the composite of mental states, a composite of 
mental states which has been designated as evi- 
dence of spirituality, sometimes as evidence of the 
soul element of human nature. 

Fourth, the psychical (or soul) element of human 
nature — which I believe is released through mental 

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states and a right use of intellectual resources. I 
further believe that it is attached to the great 
heights of the universe, heights which are far re- 
moved from the influence of either the physical or 
the mental states of man — although (as far as man 
is concerned) it is a determinant of them. 

I cannot, therefore, agree with or give place to 
what we term phychology, for, as a matter of fact, 
the so-called psychologists are, in my opinion, only 
dealing with diseased physical, mental, spiritual 
and intellectual states. Their findings, while very 
good and while they have done much for man, are 
the result of the crudest types of human vivisec- 
tion; for no study of the soul element of human 
nature can possibly be accurate under the present 
condition of human mind and the release of the 
action of the mental equivalent. I do not believe 
the findings of the psychologists are half as accu- 
rate as the findings of the student of phrenology 
and physiognomy. The study of phrenology and 
physiognomy at least definitely proves the physi- 
cal conditions under which the majority of the 
human race labor in attending to the game of life 
and its living. It offers, in my opinion, an object 
lesson of man's primitive states, and that he has 
yet to definitely relate himself to the privilep-^s 
vested in his mental equivalent. It definitely 
proves that man does not receive a physical birth 
free from prenatal and other influences; and neces- 
sarily he is denied a spiritual birth from prenatal 
and other influences. 

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Practically all of the act of thinking, a right 
vested in the translation of an impression, has been 
and still is done on the accepted language forms. 
But who can declare that any one of the language 
forms which man has used is correctly associated 
with the purpose of even the simplest of sound- 
forms? Who is there that can and will declare 
that the physical articulation of the letter, syl- 
lable, word and sentence forms used do not clash 
with the sound-forms used? And that it does not 
of necessity tangle the physical processes of articu- 
lation with the spirit behind the impulse? Who 
is there that dare state that such an articulation of 
sound-forms and its association with the letter, 
syllable, word and sentence forms does not have a 
serious influence upon the action vested in the 
mental equivalent? Who is there that dare deny 
that such conditions have not resulted in state, 
national and racial tendencies — even racial anti- 
pathies? 

We have had in the past, and we still have, 
countless millions of human beings who have been 
forced to release the GENIUS OF NATURE 
which has been so wonderfully transferred to the 
human organization to become the GENIUS OF 
MAN, upon racial and national tendencies and 
influences to the exclusion of those forces of the 
universe which were especially released to man 
that he might make his act and his thought intel- 
ligible. 

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We have had in the past, and we still have, 
countless millions of human beings who have been 
forced to struggle with 'set" conditions of the 
physical and metal articulating devices which are 
contrary to the processes released by the Creator 
that man might make his act and his thought 
intelligible. As man could not therefore definitely 
relate himself to those activities of the universe 
which were especially released that he might find 
and exercise interests designed to protect and to 
preserve his identity as a unit of the earth and of 
the universe, he has traveled the length of his 
physical life in a dream state. He could hardly do 
otherwise therefore than to consider himself as a 
mysterious being — with apparently no explana- 
tion for the reason of his existence. He could 
hardly do otherwise than to view his whole life 
from a physical perspective with its consequent 
materialistic tendencies. 

But think, if you dare, of the great number of 
men and women who have been sent to that great 
country we call heaven totally unprepared to take 
advantage of its resources! They have gone to 
heaven with a physical perspective of its resources ! 

There is no question but that man was de- 
signed to be 100 per cent efficient. It is safe, 
however, to state that at least 95 per cent are 
deficient in a use of the forces which would en- 
able man to make his act and his thought in- 
telligible. The influence of such conditions upon 
civilization is enormous. And it most certainly 

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proves true where there is no vision, man sickens 
and dies. 

The mistake of the past was to measure human 
rights to the great game of life and its living 
upon an impression which had been mentally and 
physically "set." "This, of course, automatically 
denied to the past civilizations a right of har- 
monic increase — that phase of life and its liv- 
ing which makes it worth while. But this mis- 
take is now centered upon this 20th century, 
forcing its citizens to face the greatest crisis in 
all human history. It forces every one of us to 
face the fact that man has been dealing with 
effect and not with cause; that he has been using 
palliates to ease troubled bodies and minds, and 
that these palliates have been given publicity 
as gospel truth, rather than evidence of a defi- 
nite search to find man's relation to the universe. 

To my mind the fact of the matter is the 
human race, ages ago, was sent on a tangent — the 
effect and influence of which we contend against 
in this otherwise clever 20th century. We will, 
without doubt, recover from its influence. But 
it is certain we will h^ve the greatest battle of 
all times to do so. 

I think the problem will be settled only when 
every unit of civilization is put in touch with the 
forces imbedded in the physical and which find 
their outlet in the mental equivalent of the 
physical act. I think that the "still small voice" 
— that phase of voice which connects man with 

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those activities of the universe which do not or- 
dinarily appear in the physical, is the logical ex- 
planation of our rightful attitude to the purpose 
of the game of life and its living. 

IMPRESSIONS 

The most important factor concerning the great 
game of life and its living, particularly as it is 
related to the act of thinking, is to have ma- 
terial with which to perform the act. 

There is no question that man derives his ma- 
terial from impressions. 

There is vo question that impressions proceed 
from those activities of the universe which do 
not ordinarily appear in the physical. 

There is no question that these activities of 
the universe have been especially reserved for ac- 
tion which man was to find in his mental equiva- 
lent, and that in his use of them he was to find 
material to build mental states sufficient in 
stamina to protect and to preserve his identity 
as a unit of the earth and of the universe. 

There is no question but that when man ac- 
complishes a use of these activities he is on the 
threshold of other opportunities, opportunities 
which do not come under the direct influence of 
the earth but which seem attached to the great 
universe. 

Life is conveyed to man by and through im- 
pressions. 

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I cannot therefore agree with the orthodox 
thought concerning man's immortality. 

I cannot agree with the orthodox thought that 
man was not to know his purpose on the earth. 

To my way of thinking there is every evidence 
that the Creator (by some called God) did want 
His creatures to know the purpose of the great 
game of life and its living. I cannot therefore agree 
with the orthodox thought that man is helplessly 
within the grip of the automatic precision of natural 
law; an attitude of mind which apparently does not 
take into consideration man's volitional powers and 
rights. 

Registrations of impression, being the focal- 
point of information and communication, I take 
issue with the thought concerning faith and belief. 
These attitudes of mind can only exist as a factor 
in the great game of life and its living by virtue of 
an association with the law of harmonic increase — 
the great law of the universe which constantly re- 
leases to man new forms of impression and expres- 
sion. To place faith and belief in the scheme of life 
as do our religious friends is an admission that they 
(our religious friends) are entirely without a means 
to legitimately sense, interpret and articulate an im- 
pression, and therefore cannot get to the law of har- 
monic increase which would give reasons for faith 
and belief. 

In impressions man is surrounded with activities 
which willingly and gladly dance attendance upon 

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his every legitimate need. They apprise him of ad- 
vantages to be had and they apprise him of dangers 
which exist. As man is the finality of an impression 
necessary to build the earth, and as the purpose of 
an impression is conveyed to him through an action 
which he finds in his mental equivalent, impressions 
are not conveyed to him through his physical act. 
I cannot therefore agree that man receives an im- 
pression physically. In fact, his physical body is an 
instrument which only has life sufficient to keep it 
going until he can command his internal resources. 
If he is limited of vision it is, in all probability, due 
to the fact that his physical mechanism, its right of 
co-ordination, has been interfered with. 

The activities of the universe which do not or- 
dinarily appear in the physical are, to my mind, the 
only protectorate established by the Creator that 
man might make his act and his thought intelligible. 
Fortunately they are of such potential depth and 
attachment that no man or institution has been able 
to control them as an especial privilege. Yet in spite 
of the fact that they exist and that there are no 
especial rights attached to their use by which some 
may proclaim and establish authority over the mul- 
titudes, there are men and institutions who state 
that man was left helpless and without a means of 
salvation or a place or condition to which he might 
appeal to find the solvents necessary to his so-called 
salvation. 

It is pertinent to observe in passing, that Occult 
Science and its 20th century successors, the isms, 

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cults, religions and ecclesiastical doctrines of belief, 
promise salvation to all men who believe. It is per- 
tinent to observe that men are born, they live and 
they die. Civilizations suffer because the great ma- 
jority of the human race are not prepared to face the 
dawn of what is termed a spiritual life. They have 
only faith, and belief — which are attached to the 
law of harmonic increase that proves its existence 
in the constant reception of impressions. But as 
man has arrived at his present state of mind and 
civilization by virtue of his impressions each giving 
an increase of action, is not the above mentioned 
contrary to the purpose of the great game of life 
and its living as released by the Creator to His 
creatures whom He "Made In His Image?" 

The fact of the matter is, man has no definite 
working knowledge of the purpose of sound-forms. 
He cannot and he does not therefore get a true and 
wholesome mental equivalent upon which so much 
depends concerning the manner in which he plays 
the great game of life and its living, consequently 
his "still small voice" — that phase of voice which 
associates him with the power behind him is uncer- 
tain, hazy in action, and altogether irresponsive to 
this most vital focal-point — registrations of impres- 
sion. He has, therefore, little with which he may 
definitely associate himself with these activities of 
the universe. He goes through life smothered and 
practically insensible of the purpose of an impres- 
sion. It is to be expected, therefore, that this orig- 

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inal right of man's should receive some very curious 
twists. For instance: 

In some modes of thought (if indeed it is not 
general) an impression is only recognized as an in- 
spiration. But this attitude of mind to it is an ad- 
mission that man has yet to consciously recognize 
and employ the forces imbedded in an impulse. It 
means that he is yet hazy and uncertain of mind 
concerning the most vital focal-point established by 
the Creator, and with which he is to play the great 
game of life and its living, or he would never have 
been satisfied to let it rest upon what he terms an 
inspiration. 

In the business world an impression is only 
recognized as a hunch. But this merely proves how 
impoverished the average business man is in deal- 
ing with his impressions, or he would never have 
satisfied himself and his business affairs with the 
uncertainties of a hunch. It is one of the reasons 
why he is dependent upon an impression which has 
been mentally and physically "set" and which he 
terms a thought. It proves that he is not entirely 
satisfied with his thought or he would not turn, now 
and then, to his hunch. It also proves how impover- 
ished man is concerning the law of harmonic in- 
crease, a law which would give him insight and fore- 
sight. Had he command of his impressions and 
could he translate them into terms of mental and 
physicial expression in due form, he would not have 
to depend upon what he terms precedent, an act or 

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attitude of mind which has done so much damage 
to human progress, and which actually prevents 
(harmonic) extension and intention concerning his 
original right to play the great game of life and its 
living safely, sanely and soundly. But does it not 
prove that God is in dire need of a different sort of 
publicity than that He has been getting. 

In philosophical circles, an impression is recog- 
nized as proceeding from instinct, sometimes in the 
form of what is termed intuition. But this is an ad- 
mission that, although the philosopher recognizes 
something different in the great game of life and its 
living, he has yet to come within hailing distance 
of the purpose of registrations of impression. It is, 
to my mind, an admission that the philosopher has 
yet to discern that instinct proceeds from an ability 
of the physical department of man to strictly mind 
the business of its purpose, and that man's failure 
to scientifically make use of his impressions is a 
silent protest against violation of its original right 
to readily and willingly adapt its action to express 
the intention of an impression. It is an admission, 
too, that intuition proceeds from interests designed 
to protect and to preserve man's identity as a unit 
of the earth and of the universe. 

In literature, an impression is only available and 
recognized according to the manner in which it is 
clothed in letter, syllable, word and sentence forms. 
And as all language forms are based upon muscular 

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and nervous habits with their consequent influence 
upon the mental equivalent, the impression suffers 
in its mental and physical setting. 

In music, an impression gets its best medium of 
expression. For in music man has only to contend 
with a minimum of physical interference in releas- 
ing the impulse in which is imbedded an impression. 
He deals with the sound-form direct and therefore 
comes more directly in contact with the essence of 
his impression. 

In Occult Science, an impression was generally 
recognized as an apparition proceeding from some 
soulless elemental of the earth and of the universe. 

In the 20th century successors of Occult Science, 
the isms, cults, religions and ecclesiastical doctrines 
of belief, an impression is relegated to the myster- 
ious, the meta-physical, the super-natural, and in 
general is only recognized as being released to man 
by virtue of an action which he understands as an 
ability to work along the lines of least resistance. 

Man's salvation rests upon his ability to make 
use of impressions. The quality, the depth, of his 
salvation is a determinant of the manner in which 
he mentally and physically translates his impres- 
sions. 

For purposes of information and communica- 
tion, impressions are superior to that lovely philoso- 

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phical dream "Hitch your wagon to a star" — a beau- 
tiful dream in which it has always been difficult to 
find the right kind of wagon, and still more difficult 
the right kind of star. 

The opportunity which registrations of impres- 
sion present is a mighty interest to man. In fact, 
they are the Creator's means of human information 
and communication concerning the great game of 
life and its living which man is privileged to play. 
If he can therefore find the process whereby he can 
rightly associate his action to them he will remove 
himself from the automatic precision of what is 
termed natural law under which they are articu- 
lated. 

It is astounding that out of the amazing and 
numberless impressions that a man receives during 
his life, only a few are sufficiently brought to the 
surface to be of value and interest to him. This fact 
alone forces our educational institutions, both secu- 
lar and religious, to admit that they are thrashing 
around a great corner-stone of life and its living — a 
corner-stone which represents the most vital focal- 
point of the great game of life which man is privi- 
leged to play — without a competent means to sense, 
interpret, translate and articulate it. It forces them 
to admit that they have been busy seeking and forg- 
ing a super-structure upon an original foundation, 
and in doing so have actually obscured the real 
business of the great game of life and its living, as 

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well as having obscured the purpose of the Creator 
in man, upon the earth and in the universe. 

In our earliest childhood days, indeed from in- 
fancy on, we depend upon our impressions. We, of 
course, hear and we use the word-forms in which 
the action necssary for the time being is clothed, 
and we respond accordingly. But it is the impres- 
sion which sticks. It is the impression that sinks 
deeply within our beings, and that is the real de- 
terminant of our act. Just as soon as we begin to 
depend upon the spoken and the written word we 
begin smothering processes which stifle our sensi- 
bilities, unless we are fortunate enough to have at 
our command a perfect physical co-ordination and 
an action in harmony with spirit. 

The purpose of impressions cover every neces- 
sary explanation concerning the manner in which 
man is to play the great game of life and its living. 
They prove that the GENIUS OF NATURE has 
been transfered to the human organization to be- 
come the GENIUS OF MAN. What answer there- 
fore can our educational institutions give us for 
their failure to definitely put man in association 
with this most vital focalpoint which was released 
for purposes of information and communication 
concerning the great game of life and its living 
which man is privileged to play? 

When we are able to get to our impressions and 
can definitely sense, interpret, translate and articu- 
late them without damage to their original purity 

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and excellence of purpose we shall come upon 
mighty interests associated with the game we are 
privileged to play. We shall then look with horror 
upon the past, and be happy in the fact that we live 
in an age in which this original right was recognized 
and released to the human race as an individual 
right to find and exercise interests to protect and 
to preserve man's identity as a unit of the earth and 
of the universe. We will be happy that we lived in 
an age which permitted its every unit to take advan- 
tage of this most vital focal-point, a focal-point 
which so evidently was released by the Creator that 
man might find information and communication — 
both of which are necessary to make his act and his 
thought intelligible. When we are able to legiti- 
mately sense, interpret, translate and articulate our 
impressions in their original purity and excellence 
of purpose we will move forward to postulate our 
act and our thought upon the line of demarcation 
which exists between the two great worlds in which 
we play the great game of life and its living. 

We will find, in our use of impressions and the 
possibilities attached to them, the most amazing and 
even bewildering harmonic conditions imaginable. 
Short-circuits (in comparison to the old physical 
mode of expression) of the most enticing types 
everywhere abound. We will have at our command 
the fabled seven-league-boots, for we will be able to 
accomplish the purpose of an impression without 
the usual physical hindrances. And as we will then 

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be in an unlimited field, it will tax our ability to 
keep pace. The finest of discriminations, the most 
subtle of harmonic suggestions and the most allur- 
ing fancies are within reach of the daring soul who 
will and does break with the conventional attitude 
of mind concerning man's original rights of impres- 
sion and expression. We will find in our use of im- 
pression an explanation for vision concerning archi- 
tecture, painting, literature, music, and indeed all 
branches of human endeavor. We will find in our 
use of impressions that, by virtue of the act vested 
in man's mental equivalent, we have actually come 
upon the HAVEN (heaven) which Occult Science 
sought. If we rightly open its action we will find 
that we are already possessed with a HAVEN, or 
heaven, superior in every way to the usual concep- 
tion of it as given by Occult Science and its 20th 
century successors, the isms, cults, religions and ec- 
clesiastical doctrines of belief. We will find that 
we have already been endowed with possibilities of 
articulation sufficient to prove the immortality of 
man. In fact, the moment we move under a right 
use of the impulse in which is imbedded an impres- 
sion we already are in action upon the spiritual 
plane. We will also have sufficient at our com- 
mand to make us wonder that any man or institu- 
tion could ever have dared to place the "closed 
shop idea" upon its intention and the action which 
was designed and released to man that he might 
establish his identity as a unit of the earth and of 
the universe. 

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If we dare to go a bit further in our analysis 
and use of impressions we will find that we have 
plunged right into the very work-shop of the uni- 
verse, the work-shop in which the substance of the 
great game of life and its living is forged and re- 
leased for man's benefit, pleasure and profit. We 
will find that there have been no legislative pro- 
hibitives placed upon its intention and its content. 
Indeed, because it has been especially prepared for 
man, he is more than thrice welcome. The only 
limit that has been placed upon it is — the limit of 
the universe itself. And this is big enough for 
any man. The harmonic scintilations therein en- 
countered veritably seethe with an almost incred- 
ible utterance. Modelling material of wonderful 
resiliency is to be found in the uses to which its 
intention and content may be put. 

As registrations of impression belong to the 
law of harmonic increase, man's interest in them 
grows at the rate of compound interest. It is 
therefore fatal to the great game of life and its liv- 
ing to mentally and physically "set" (as has been 
done in the past) an impression. But this is ex- 
actly what man has done — in the business world, 
in social and religious interests. 

The business man, in his business astuteness — 
or lack of it — has taken the work of the dreamer — 
the artisan of the abstract — and has built a nice 
wall of concrete around what the artisan of the 
abstract found and released. He does not perceive 

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that he has walled himself in, and that he is con- 
stantly calling upon the artisan of the abstract to 
release him from his self-imposed predicament. But 
he is not entirely unaware that he has failed in 
taking advantage of his own original rights of im- 
pression and expression. He yet has fancies of 
mind which he would give anything to unfasten 
them from the anchorage to which they are 
stuck. He is (semi-consciously) aware that there 
are solvents within reach if he could get to them 
in due form. He is aware that he has missed the 
real beauty of the great game of life and its living. 
But as the solvents which he cannot (somehow) 
command and exercise are not available to his 
business interests and astuteness, he terms the 
artisan of the abstract as one who is not respon- 
sive to the practical things of the day and age in 
which he lives. He forgets that what he terms the 
practical was once the ideal, the work of the 
dreamer of the ages past — he who was classified 
as impractical in his day and age. 

But the beauty of an impression is — it is so 
familiar. It is so real. It is of that phase of life 
and its living which enables man to say: "Why, I 
knew that before." It does not proceed from the 
mysterious. It has nothing in common with the 
super-natural, the meta-physical, nor does it belong 
to a strange country rilled with long-haired anem- 
ics. It is not made up of dream-stuff, although, 
commonly speaking, it is man's dreams realized. 

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It is not made up of an echo, born of a physical 
act, which has to be kept alive by organic repeti- 
tion — such as is used in the school room and in 
business colleges to induce memory. Its essence 
was already born to man in what is termed the 
"high lights," and it explains that fact of human 
action "in appreciation as the germ of creation." 
It exists that man might find and exercise interests 
which have been established to protect and to pre- 
serve his identity as a unit of the earth and of the 
universe. 

As an activity of the universe released by the 
Creator for man's benefit, pleasure and profit, it is 
practically a notification from the Creator to man 
to go ahead and build his Kingdom of Individu- 
ality without fear or favor. It is practically a 
notification from the Creator that a nation, or a 
group of peoples, whose every individual unit was 
capable of exercising the intention and content of 
registrations of impression would be a nation, or 
group of peoples whose standards of human effi- 
ciency would be fit for the gods. Such a people 
would exemplify: 

The Purpose of the Creator glorified in Man. 

Man glorified in the Purpose of the Creator. 

The older civilizations judged, and condemned, 
a man by — what he said. 

The "Spirit of America" is an endeavor to find 
out — what he means. 

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It is therefore a practical and philosophical en- 
deavor to realize that "Action speaks louder than 
words." This attitude of governmental policy to 
the individual — the greatest blessing in all human 
history — is an admission that action is more in- 
timately associated with the means provided by the 
Creator that man might make his act and his 
thought intelligible. 

As far as man is immediately concerned, the 
greatest interest of the game of life and its living is 
— spiritual economics. But as his command of his 
physical act and its mental equivalent is not at all 
commensurate with the purpose for which they 
were created, he lacks in a definite realization of 
spiritual economics. 

I believe, therefore, that no nation of civiliza- 
tion will hold for any great length of time unless 
its every individual unit is put into touch with and 
can command registrations of impression. I am 
perfectly willing to add to this that under the pres- 
ent scheme of civilization, its standards of human 
efficiency, the great majority are quite devoid of 
any clear realization of the value of life and its 
living. And that what we term civilization is out 
of harmony with the actual purpose of the Creator 
in man, upon the earth and in the universe. 

SPIRIT. 

Man is dual in his makeup. 

He is dual in his makeup because, besides his 
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While the action vested in his mental equiva- 
lent is simultaneous with the physical act, it lasts 
for a second or two after. 

There is a well-defined reason for it. 

It apparently is part of the purpose of the 
Creator to release interests to man which he may 
use to protect and to preserve his identity as a 
unit of the earth and of the universe. 

That it exists may be proven by the following: 

Let anyone take a quick look at an object. 
Then let him close his eyes and try to remember 
what he saw. In some it is so strong that they 
can give almost in detail what they saw. In others 
there is a feeling of utter helplessness; they are 
unable to give the slightest intimation of what they 
saw. They need not, however, be alarmed at their 
failure to do so, for this action was purposefully 
created, and it will answer any effort to arouse it. 

The scientists tell us that man receives vibra- 
tions upon the eye at the rate of 15 million million 
vibrations per second. Can anyone assume that 
this is merely a blind force at work without a defi- 
nite purpose back of it? Can anyone assume that 
it is merely the result of an oversupply released by 
the Creator to make sure that His creatures whom 
he "Made In His Image" would be able to sense 
and interpret the purpose of the gift and the privi- 
leges of life? 

Man has always had spiritual tendencies. 
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He did not get his information concerning 
spiritual tendencies from Occult Science, nor from 
the many isms, cults, religious and ecclesiastical 
doctrines of belief. He has spiritual tendencies be- 
cause of three specific conditions concerning the 
great game of life and its living. These are: 

1. The activities of the universe in composite 
form — representing the completeness of the uni- 
vere; access to which has been given man in an 
action vested in the mental equivalent of his phys- 
ical act. 

There is little doubt that the constant registra- 
tions of impressions upon a man during his life 
might easily have led him (especially his primitive 
forefathers) to believe that he was surrounded with 
great spirits who struggled to communicate with 
man. There is little doubt, too, that this constant 
registration of impressions would easily lead the 
more susceptible to believe they were surrounded 
with what Occult Science called apparitions — prac- 
tically resolving itself into what Occult Science 
called a visitation from the soulless elementals of 
the earth and of the universe. It would at least 
have this effect and influence upon the more sen- 
sitive; those who thought they believed in the 
super-natural, the meta-physical and similar states 
of mind. 

Mas has access to these activities of the uni- 
verse through the action vested in his mental 
equivalent, via the "still small voice." 

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In releasing these activities to man through the 
"still small voice" we have sufficient proof that the 
Creator DID WANT MAN TO KNOW His pur- 
pose in man, upon the earth and in the universe. 
I cannot, therefore, agree with the orthodox atti- 
tude that man should stay content in the place that 
God has placed him in civilization. Such an atti- 
tude is in direct opposition to the law of harmonic 
increase. It is in direct opposition to the oppor- 
tunities presented in the composite activities of the 
universe. I do not believe that God had anything 
directly to do with man's conception of life, nor 
with man's attempt to forge a civilization worthy 
the purpose of the Creator in man, upon the earth 
and in the universe. In fact, there is sufficient 
evidence that had He any say in the matter He 
would have made a better job of it than has man; 
that He would at least have produced a civiliza- 
tion in which every unit was capable of exercising 
the 100 per cent efficiency that had been released 
to the human organization. 

Man, in my estimation, is only limited by what 
is in the universe. 

Naturally enough the determinant of his results 
is the condition of the instrument with which he 
produces his results. If life does represent a great 
opportunity, it would seem an imperative that man 
should have the instrument with which he is to 
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2. The countless millions of impressions which 
a man gets during his life — the majority of which 
he has been unable to consciously bring to the 
surface to become potential power in him. 

Here we have a very curious human situation. 

Think of it! We have been endowed with a 
holding concern capable of receiving, interpreting 
and of articulating the purpose of the Creator in 
man, upon the earth and in the universe. Yet the 
majority of our impressions are obscure because 
they have not been definitely brought to the sur- 
face to become potential power in man. 

Occult Science took the position that in these 
unreleased impressions man had evidence of the 
presence of disembodied souls. 

The spiritualist and the scientist who works in 
what he terms spiritism take the same position. 

Modern scientific research in what is termed 
the subconscious states of man proves quite differ- 
ent. It .has been discovered that we may sound 
the depths of what is termed the subconscious 
states of man and without the aid of hypnotic sleep 
or drugs to stifle the action of the physical. Although 
the scientists are as yet unwilling to appraise the 
discoveries he has made, he believes he has found 
a way to recover strange treasures — which he can- 
not as yet account for. 

We will, in my opinion, prove the fallacy of in- 
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embodied souls of those who reside in the spiritual 
realms of the universe. We will yet prove that 
man is merely taking up those impressions which 
are obscure because they have not been legiti- 
mately received, translated and released. That is 
all. 

These unreleased impressions— -millions of them 
— persist in man because he has not his voice in 
order. They persist because he has not a com- 
mand of voice sufficient in texture to sense, inter- 
pret, release and articulate them. They persist in 
man because he only vocally approximates them, 
and they leap to the surface at the most unexpected 
moments because of this vocal approximation. 

Man works almost entirely unconscious of what 
is taking place and of what he is doing. For in- 
stance, the manner in which he uses the action of 
his physical body and its working relation to its 
mental equivalent is an object lesson of great sig- 
nificance. Watch the man, the average man, any 
man. While he is busy with a problem he is com- 
muning with himself — struggling to formulate his 
impression to mental and physical terms of expres- 
sion. He is usually unconscious of the fact that 
he struggles with a physical mechanism that is not 
scientifically related to the action vested in his 
mental equivalent. He is therefore compelled to 
live and act upon a plane so far removed from his 
physical self that if you startle him he will jump 

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as if frightened by some apparition. He is so far 
out of touch with what he is doing physically that 
he only obeys its action automatically. And while 
he laughs at the humorists' ancient joke, "Why 
does the chicken cross the street?" he performs the 
same act with less interest, perhaps, than does the 
chicken. Yet he will inform you that he is a liv- 
ing example of human efficiency; that he at least 
represents the average. And he will, if given the 
opportunity, prove it by showing his college 
diploma, which proves that he is 100 per cent effi- 
cient. But the very next instant he is chasing the 
butterflies of his mental equivalent and you again 
have to startle him to bring him back to earth. 

What is the matter with him? 

He is an effiuviumist (if I dare coin a word) 
par excellence. 

He, by an original right, is working in the 
essence of his impressions. 

He, by virtue of the fact that he has not the 
machinery at his command to translate his impres- 
sions to mental and physical terms of expression, 
is lost on the high seas of his impressions. 

In fact, his impressions come at him so fast and 
his command of rights of articulation, both mental 
and physical, is so insecure that he cannot bring 
his impressions to mental and physical terms of 
expression and retain them in their original purity 
and excellence of purpose. 

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His use of voice, being graduated and formu- 
lated according to his physical demands for sus- 
tenance, is not sufficient for him to catch and regis- 
ter (consciously) an impression in its complete- 
ness. 

His real life- wire — the life-wire between the 
two great worlds in which he is to play the game 
of life and its living — is not sufficient for him to 
accomplish the purpose of life and its living. He 
therefore has no direct contact with either his 
psysical or his mental self, and he goes through 
life handicapped in his struggle to associate him- 
self with the essentials of life. 

But these unreleased impressions have a greater 
significance. They are the immediate base of all 
spiritual tendencies. They are the stronghold of a 
belief in the spiritual, a belief that man's soul 
persists after physical death. 

Modern scientific research in what is termed 
the subconscious states of man will yet prove that 
if a man has inner conflicts they are not due to 
disembodied souls who struggle to attain mastery 
over him. It will yet prove that the one afflicted 
is bothered with physical disabilities which seri- 
ously interfere with a normal physical action, pre- 
venting a conscious realization of the purpose of 
the action vested in man's mental equivalent. 

Why is man in such a plight of articulation? 

Occult Science is at fault. 

It undertook the study of the mind of man. 

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This study offered advantages over the unin- 
formed multitudes which was not overlooked by 
the genius of the times in which it was enunciated. 
And in spite of the fact that there were a few 
who undertook the study of the mind of man for 
the benefit of the whole human race, and that the 
study did release findings of great value, there is 
every reason to believe that it was wrongly postu- 
lated. The evidence which I purpose giving proves 
it, I think. For instance, if it had not been wrongly 
postulated, there would never have been enunciated 
such a bald statement as the existence of a "terror 
on the threshold," meaning that it was dangerous 
for the ordinary man to approach what was termed 
the spiritual nature of man without proper guid- 
ance and without great caution. As the so-called 
spiritual nature of man is the great country to 
v/hich all are bound, and is therefore man's normal 
right, the condition of human mind at the time of 
its enunciation must have been at a low ebb, else 
it would not have been accepted. Occult Science 
later enunciated another bald statement: "When 
a man begins a study of the spiritual purpose of 
life he is opposed by the combined forces of the 
spiritual realms which struggle to keep him out." 

According to a fundamental law of the universe, 
a law of harmonic increase — It Is Not So. Accord- 
ing the the apparent purpose of those activities of 
the universe which do not ordinarily appear in the 
physical — It Is Not So. According to the interests 

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vested in the universe and which are centered in 
and find their finality of expression in the human 
organization, veritably the GENIUS OF NA- 
TURE transferred to the human organization to 
become the GENIUS OF MAN— It Is Not So. 
According to the GENIUS OF NATURE which 
was released to man that he might find interests to 
protect and to preserve his identity as a unit of the 
earth and of the universe — It Is Not So. Accord- 
ing to the purpose of the silent, powerful impellent 
back of man, and which appears in the form of an 
impulse, in which is imbedded an impression — It 
Is Not So. According to that great focal-point of 
the physical department of man's organization — 
perfect co-ordination and an action in harmony 
with spirit— It Is Not So. It COULD NOT BE 
SO. 

The fact of the matter is, if anyone has diffi- 
culty with spirit, if anyone has difficulty in unfold- 
ing his potential powers, it is not due to any 
spiritual force which struggles to keep him from 
sensing and exercising his original rights of im- 
pression and expression. For in his mental equiva- 
lent he has access to an action which is superior 
in every way to the physical and spiritual forces 
of which he is a part and to which he is heir. 

The medium through whom the spiritualist and 
the scientist works claims that he is a super-sensi- 
tive; that because of it he is able to commune with 

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the army of disembodied souls who reside in that 
great country we call heaven. 

Occult Science set such a thought in motion. 
The officers and members of the Psychical Re- 
search Society believe it. So do those who are 
particularly susceptible — physically and mentally — 
to the purpose of impressions. 

I protest the statement and I protest the claim 
of a super-sensitiveness. I protest any information 
received through such channels as evidence of the 
presence of disembodied souls. I protest the state 
of mind that would accept such an apparent viola- 
tion of human living rights and as proceeding from 
the disembodied souls. And for the following 
reasons : 

A definite use of the "still small voice" suffi- 
ciently wrought to action as an original right 
found in man's mental equivalent, makes it un- 
necessary and shows that the assertion of the 
medium, the spiritualist and the spirit, does not 
prove his case. The fact that the human organiza- 
tion is the finest and most complete seismograph 
on the earth and possibly in the universe, destroys 
it as proof. The fact that the human organization 
is so delicately adjusted that it will automatically 
formulate its action to the minutest fragment of 
what is taking place on the earth and in the uni- 
verse, destroys it as proof. The fact that in man's 
mental equivalent he has access to an action which 

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associates him with those activities of the universe 
which do not ordinarily appear in the physical, 
destroys it as proof. The fact of the matter is, this 
sensitiveness to what is taking place in man, upon 
the earth and in the universe is a normal right that 
was released by the Creator to man upon a perfect 
physical co-ordination and an action in harmony 
with spirit. The fact that the majority of the 
human race cannot exercise this sensitiveness is no 
proof that it does not exist. It does prove, how- 
ever, that his educational institutions and the pro- 
cesses they employ to induce human culture are 
radically wrong somewhere, else every unit of the 
human race would be in full possession of the 100 
per cent efficiency (in action) that the Creator re- 
leased to the human organization. The failure to 
recognize and use the GENIUS OF NATURE 
which has been transferred to the human organiza- 
tion to become the GENIUS OF MAN is evidence 
that the educator has wrongly postulated his course 
of instruction. The fact that man is mostly made 
up of impressions that have not been legitimately 
received, retained and articulated is evidence, too, 
that his educational processes, both secular and re- 
ligious, have been wrongly postulated. It is an 
unquestioned fact that in the action vested in man's 
mental equivalent he has access to the holding con- 
cern of the universe in which impressions — their 
intention and content — were capable of being stored 
that he might protect and preserve his identity as a 
unit of the earth and of the universe. 

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The spiritualist and the medium claim they hear 
voices, and that these voices are not of their own 
creation. They claim to gather information from 
the voices they hear, information which man could 
not otherwise secure. 

I protest the claim and I protest the attitude of 
mind making it possible, and for the following rea- 
sons: 

Man can conjure to his mind any type of sound- 
form he chooses. He can combine the types of 
sound-forms he hears to make up other types. He 
is mostly made up of impressions — apparitions Oc- 
cult Science called them — which have not been 
brought to the surface and legitimately released. 
From these he gets his sense of faith and belief, even 
courage to face and battle the problems of life and 
its living, and which lead him to try and work out 
his so-called salvation. He can conjure to his mind 
the voices of his own loved ones — particularly those 
who have preceded him to that great country we 
call heaven. In fact, is not this one of the strong 
links which binds us to a memory of our loved ones ! 

It is a well known fact that man, during his life 
time, hears and has registered upon what he terms 
his subconscious mind differing types of voices — 
many of which he cannot account for, and many of 
which he can instantly visualize. When we take 
into consideration the fact that the voices which a 
man hears proceed from his varied readings of an- 
cient and modern philosophy, the daily newspapers, 

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weekly and monthly magazines, and the thousand 
odd types he constantly hears, including the many 
accentuations placed upon them, the question and 
its answer becomes comparatively simple. Man is 
living only upon a recall. The situation which I 
have tried to describe by no means indicates the 
presence of disembodied souls. If one thousand 
men were to read Socrates, for instance, Socrates 
would be split into one thousand sections — with 
vocal accentuations placed upon each section which 
would totally smother him. He would have a fear- 
ful time in gathering himself together; to again 
locate himself, and under such circumstances he 
might easily wish that his draught of hemlock had 
been strong enough to have forever put him to 
sleep. 

Out of the varied voices that any one may men- 
tally and physically visualize, man struggles to find 
the one that actually belongs to him; the one that 
will best suit his impulse, and which will best em- 
body the purpose of his impression and expression. 
But he does not escape the rest. They hang around 
leading him to accentuations which he would not, 
upon second thought, employ. 

Everything of the earth and the universe is in 
order. 

This order is for man. It is his when he rightly 
associates himself to its function. If he has diffi- 
culty in sensing the purpose of it, particularly as it 

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is related to the action which he is to find in his 
mental equivalent, it is due to the fact that he has 
(unconsciously) violated the focal-point upon which 
spirit was released — a perfect physical co-ordin- 
ation. If he has difficulty in finding the focal-point 
of his physical organization upon which a perfect 
co-ordination was released, it is due — in all proba- 
bility — to the fact that he has violated one or all 
of the three great focal-points necessary to the 
maintenance of the physical, viz., chemicalization, 
assimilation and elimination. It would therefore 
practically be impossible for him to connect and as- 
sociate himself legitimately with those activities of 
the universe which do not ordinarily appear in the 
physical. Under such circumstances it would prac- 
tically be impossible for him to definitely and accu- 
rately sense, interpret, translate and articulate an 
impression true to its original purity and excellence 
of purpose. He would seldom have sufficient at his 
command to legitimately sense, let alone, translate 
an impression to mental and physical terms of ex- 
pression. 

Consequently man is a mass of unreleased im- 
pressions. 

He at the same time is in touch with them. 

If he is possessed with what he terms a "Dual 
Personality," here is one of the reasons for it. But 
it merely means that the impressions that he has 
received have sufficient behind them, to make them 
stick — probably bcause they have been vocally ap- 

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proximated. As his physical use of voice is not in 
harmony with the function of the "still small 
voice?" there is a constant struggle between the 
two, enough to convince those afflicted that they 
are possessed with a "Dual Personality." 

Physical abnormalities — which the orificial sur- 
geon and the osteopath can readily alleviate — 
prove that there is a physical disturbance which 
acts upon the life-giving-stream to such an extent 
that the one afflicted is unable to secure a real and 
lasting perspective of life and its living. It proves 
that the one afflicted is not bothered and besieged 
by disembodied souls. 

3. The ONE impression — in comparison to the 
countless millions that a man receives — is the One 
upon which he has based his standards of human 
efficiency. Upon it he has presumed to name the 
Name of the Creator. Upon it he has assumed a 
right to judge his fellows. Upon it he has based 
his law — both secular and religious. It is to be 
noticed, however, that neither his secular nor his re- 
ligious law are sufficient to hold in check mob spirit 
and mob hysteria — in a crisis. It means that the 
whole human race is held within the grip of stand- 
ards which are not sufficient to cover the purpose 
of the Creator in man, upon the earth and in the 
universe. It means that the whole of the human 
race are deficient in a use of the articulating devices 
of the mental and the physical departments of man ; 
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cerning the great game of life and its living — a defi- 
nite reception and translation of impressions ; the 
means provided by the Creator that man might 
make his act and his thought intelligible. 

What would happen if every man were put in 
touch with even the unreleased impressions — those 
that hang around in spite of his artificial cleverness 
in a use of voice? What would happen to our pres- 
ent conception of the GENIUS OF NATURE if 
every unit of the human race were put in direct as- 
sociation with the means provided by the Creator 
that man might use those activities of the universe 
which do not ordinarily appear in the physical, but 
which apparently have been reserved for an action 
that is to be found in that phase of voice (the "still 
small voice") which is to be found in man's mental 
equivalent ? 

That the scientists the world over could be 
caught napping and be induced to believe that the 
voices which the spiritualists and the mediums 
claim to hear were the voices of the dead — is incom- 
prehensible. That they could be induced to believe 
that the spiritualists and the mediums through 
whom they work actually receive information from 
and communicate with the souls who reside in the 
spiritual realms of the universe is astounding. Does 
it not prove how little acquainted we are with Voice 
—as an UNBROKEN ARTICULATING ROUTE 
between the physical and spiritual departments of 
man? 

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I would not have my readers believe I was de- 
liberately trying to discredit the work of the scien- 
tists who work in what is termed spiritism. Every 
phase of human investigation that will throw more 
light upon man's right of impression and expression 
is worth while. What I do intend to convey is the 
fact that the spiritualist, the spiritist and the me- 
diums through whom they work are violating a 
fundamental law of the universe, and that they 
work only in that vast field of unreleased impres- 
sions, impressions which have been (half — perhaps) 
forged, and yet which have not been sufficiently 
brought to the surface to become potential power in 
man. 

The fact of the matter is, because we have not 
forged greater combinations of harmonic interests 
— made up of those activities of the universe which 
do not ordinarily appear in the physical, and from 
the composite activities of the universe — we have 
no open road which will lead us to know and to 
understand the purpose of the Creator in man, 
upon the earth and in the universe. If we get no 
response from our puny effort to probe the pur- 
pose of the Creator in man, upon the earth and in 
the universe — it only proves how vast is the uni- 
verse; how great the opportunity to play the game 
of life. There is nothing, therefore, alarming in 
recognizing the fact that the effort of the spiritist 
to unravel what he terms the "Reality of the un- 
seen" is futile — except that it will prove how shal- 

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low is man's conception of the working privileges 
vested in the game of life and its living. 

The evil influence of Occult Science upon our 
modern religious thought is enormous. It has, to 
my mind, led us to a very obscure and elusive 
insanity, a type which takes an acute intelligence 
to sense its existence and to produce a cure of its 
ravaging influence and action. 

It is my opinion that Occult Science made its 
mistake in classifying those activities of the uni- 
verse which do not ordinarily appear in the physi- 
cal—as soulless elementals of the earth and of the 
universe. It made this mistake because it, appar- 
ently, had no vocal means at its command to other- 
wise discern the purpose of these activities. 

I think I have given sufficient proof that in 
man's mental equivalent he has access to an action 
of the universe which is separate and apart from 
the physical, and which leads him to find and 
visualize the real purpose of the great game of life 
and its living. 

It strikes me that, although we have in our 
mental action a holding concern in which every- 
thing put into the mind of man was intended for 
future use and reference, we are therefore up 
against a very serious proposition in clearing it of 
the false postulates upon which it has been gradu- 
ated and formulated. We will find, I am sure, 

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that when we clear up our attitude and action to 
it we will assume our rightful relation to the pur- 
pose of the Creator in man, upon the earth and in 
the universe. We will then, and then alone, as- 
sume our rightful sense of impression and expres- 
sion. 

As voice IS an UNBROKEN ARTICULAT- 
ING ROUTE between the physical and the spirit- 
ual, or mental departments of man — the answer to 
the whole problem is to be found in a correct use 
of voice, for its distinctions will put us in touch 
with the law of harmonic increase — that law of the 
universe which was provided that man might more 
and more make his act and his thought intelligible. 

We will then KNOW our use of voice. We 
well then know the voices we constantly visualize 
and we will not be decived by Occult Science and 
its 20th century successors, the isms, cults, re- 
ligions and ecclesiastical doctrines of belief. 

EDUCATION. 

Out of this chaotic state of human affairs, the 
modern educator is struggling to find an outlet. 
He is aware that somewhere man has missed the 
real purpose of the gift and the privileges of life. 
He is aware, too, that man has been unable to 
grasp the full significance of the purpose of those 
activities of the universe which do not ordinarily 
appear in the physical. He is also aware that the 
purpose of the Creator in man, upon the earth and 

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in the universe has not been getting the human 
publicity it ought to have. 

He, however, faces two great problems — the po- 
litical and the religious attitudes of mind, both of 
which prevent him from exercising his profession 
as he would wish. 

He is up against Occult Science and its 20th cen- 
tury successors, the isms, cults, religious and eccle- 
siastical doctrines of belief. These have a strangle- 
hold upon the multitudes — in that they have taken 
advantage of the human race at the weakest point 
in man's present make up — a weak point which ex- 
ists because there is an irregularity in the reception, 
retention, release and articulation of impressions. 
Occult Science and its successors have deliberately 
taught the multitudes that in spite of scientific evi- 
dence that these irregularities seriously interfere 
with vision — each unit of the human race would be 
saved; that each would be saved because they had 
been especially chosen of God; that because of it 
they need have no fear, even if they do offend 
human decencies in general. 

He is up against the great corporations of the 
world which have robbed man of a right of initiative 
in business affairs. These corporations, of course, 
provide "jobs" for a great number of men. But in 
providing "jobs" they also release man from the 
necessity of exercising volitional powers, particu- 
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activities of the universe which do not ordinarily 
appear in the physical. These "jobs" restrict man. 
They place him in a narrow groove. He has not the 
time nor has he the inclination as a rule to search 
deeply into the activities of the universe to find and 
to articulate his rights of impression and expression. 
To meet such a situation the educator has been 
called upon to provide a course of instruction — vo- 
cational training, it is called — that would prepare a 
goodly number for the narrow groove which awaits 
them. Such a course of instruction, however good 
it may be, ties the life-giving-stream of the student 
to limitations of action and vision, both of which 
smother and stifle greater interests concerned with 
the great game of life and is living. It is produc- 
tive of poor business ethics, cheap mental states 
and shabby spirituality. 

He is up against yet another phase of education- 
al processes, a phase which deliberately assumes a 
right of man-handling propensities — from the kin- 
dergarten to a hand-to-hand contact with God. Yet 
it is an unquestioned fact that each and all processes 
of human culture violate the one and only revela- 
tion made by the Creator to man that he might 
make his act and his thought intelligible. Because 
they claim to deal with the very essentials of life 
and its living, they have a grip upon human con- 
sciousness that can hardly be shaken. But the ap- 
plication of the one and only covenant of good faith 
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ordination and the possibility of an action in har- 
mony with spirit — to man's educational processes, 
both secular and religious, reveals the impoverished 
condition of them. That a goodly number of peo- 
ple are now ready to face the problem without fear 
or favor is evident in the growing discontent with 
the older methods employed to induce human cul- 
ture. 

The application of — a perfect physical co-ordin- 
ation and an action in harmony with spirit, proves— 
in every branch of human endeavor — the plight of 
articulation in which man finds himself in this 20th 
century. It shows and it proves the smothering 
processes through which man has been passed since 
the enunciation of the theories advanced by Occult 
Science. It proves how incompetent man really is 
in his sense and use of impression and expression. 
It proves how helpless man has been and still is in 
dealing with those activities of the universe which 
do not ordinarily appear in the physical, but which 
have been especially reserved for an action which 
he is to find in his mental equivalent. 

It has been said the "Education was the liberator 
of the mind." But as established and as taught it 
is nothing of the kind. The one and only "Liber- 
ator of the mind" is to be found in man's mental 
equivalent. Its base is a determinant of a perfect 
physical co-ordination and an action in harmony 
with spirit. This, to my mind, is the one and only 

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postulate upon which it was made possible for man 
to fully sense, interpret and articulate those activi- 
ties of the universe which do not ordinarily appear 
in the physical. This is the one and only postulate 
upon which he may definitely sense and use those 
activities, and with which he may make his act and 
his thought intelligible. 

The modern educator, like those of old, contends 
with language-forms, his use of sound-forms and its 
association with letter, syllable, word and sentence 
forms, neither of which are strictly true to the pur- 
pose of sound-forms revealing the harmonic essence 
of the surrounding air-blanket of the earth. In the 
search for root-derivatives of word-forms we may 
go back as far as Sanscript and here and there find 
a word-form which seems to have had its origin in 
a language form of the misty past. In each and 
practically every instance, no legitimate excuse for 
the peculiarity of vocal expression is to be found. 
Each and all of the word-forms may be said to 
have been based upon some peculiarity of muscular 
and nervous habits, the result in all probability of 
the particular idiocincracy of the individual or nation 
which set the word-form in motion. 

But again we find the activities of the earth and 
of the universe asserting themselves. The interests 
which have been provided to protect and to pre- 
serve man's identity are at work. In spite of the 
numerous language forms man has had and in spite 
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rights of articulation, he has been protected. Sound- 
forms exist in spite of his letter, syllable, word and 
sentence forms. He has only a few sound-forms 
which are common to the human race the world 
over. And of these he has only a few which are dis- 
tinctly human, and which show the origin of his im- 
pulse. These are the sound-forms of the laugh, the 
cry of pain, of surprise, of distress and of agony. 
Beyond these he is all at sea. He is drifting amidst 
the mighty ocean of sound-forms — the composite 
sound-form which surrounds the earth — with only 
a few poorly constructed disphans (letter, syllable, 
word and sentence forms) with which he hopes to 
bail out the mighty purpose of life and its living. 
With these letter, syllable, word and sentence forms 
he has been taught that he might hope to associate 
himself with the purpose of the Creator in man, 
upon the earth and in the universe. He has even 
been taught to look for salvation — from what? he 
does not know — in his use of them. 

But the language forms of man, including its 
idioms, dialects, abbreviations and our modern at- 
tempt at simplified spelling, are the result of muscu- 
lar and nervous habits. They have no deeper base 
upon which man may definitely hope to satisfy him- 
self, and with which to associate himself to the pur- 
pose of even the simplest of fragments of the com- 
posite sound-form which surrounds the earth. This 
means that the action which is to be found in his 
mental equivalent is lost in the same sort of action. 
It means that man's mental equivalent is automati- 

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cally penurious of actual harmonic interests and 
value. It means that human action and sense of 
the great game of life and its living must inevitably 
be based upon precedent, an act which gets its right 
to live in the mind of man from the past. It means 
that practically all conception of the power of man 
and the power of God must inevitably be based upon 
and proceed from a sense of physical strength and 
physical prowess. 

The "better speech movement" is therefore con- 
cerned with a correct use of the physical and mental 
mechanism — both of which were provided by the 
Creator that man might sense, interpret, translate 
and articulate an impression in due form. 

The difficulty what man faces in his use of his 
original rights of impression and expression is not 
in his use of the letter, syllable, word and sentence 
forms. The difficulty is to be found in the general 
confusion of impulses — the physical with the men- 
tal. Under such circumstances it is practically im- 
possible for man to get to his original rights of im- 
pression and expression. Of course, in his effort 
to technically realize and visualize these original 
rights he has accomplished much. But the realiza- 
tion that he has somewhere failed will not down. 

The realization that he has failed is to be par- 
ticularly noted in his use of the tongue, the lips and 
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found in a convulsive effort to answer the purpose 
of impression and expression. There is hardly a 
man who is not afflicted in some way in a use of the 
organs of voice and of speech. It is the reason for 
my statement that fully ninety-five per cent of the 
human race are deficient vocally. 

When we realize — if we ever do — that the phy- 
sical articulating devices are so wonderfully ad- 
justed to their purpose, even to taking on the min- 
utest color-scheme imbedded in an impression, we 
will realize that we have a scheme of expression 
worthy the purpose of the Creator in man, upon the 
earth and in the universe. That they will readily 
and instantaneously formulate and assume the posi- 
tion necessary to release the most obscure intention 
of an impression attests the fact that technical 
training is a violation of an original right of im- 
pression and expression. In this connection it is 
pertinent to observe that the vocal culturist, speech 
and singing, teaches that breathing supports voice 
or tone. But it is not true. For back of breath is 
an impulse. Back of the impulse is an impression. 
The impression is sufficient to demand just the 
amount of energy necessary to discharge the im- 
pulse. It may therefore be stated as a scientific 
fact that any one who teaches breathing in this 
sense is violating an original right of impression 
and expression. And that the one submitting to it 
is robbing himself of his original rights, rights 
which would otherwise enable him to sense, inter- 

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pret, translate and articulate the purpose of life and 
its living. 

There is yet another phase which he (uncon- 
sciously) violates. When he is taught breathing, 
using the usual processes employed by the vocal 
culturist, he is involving his muscular and nervous 
systems — both of which prevent him, under such 
circumstances, from strictly minding the purpose of 
the business of life. He short-circuits his sensitive 
apparatus. He imposes upon himself a tension 
which seldom permits him to accomplish bodily 
comfort. If his mind is filled with strange vagaries, 
here is a reason for it. If he is swayed by millions 
of cross-currents, suggesting types of impression 
and expression which he cannot account for, here is 
a reason for it. Here is a situation which this 20th 
century's intelligence can no longer afford to over- 
look, for it is a menace to the purpose of man upon 
the earth and in the universe. 

Man has failed to realize his original rights of 
impression and expression because he has never 
had a process of action sufficient for him to legiti- 
mately sense those activities of the universe which 
have been especially provided that he might find 
life more abundantly. 

There is a definite reason for it. 

This I have tried to put into word-forms in the 
preceding chapters of this volume. 

I think, however, that the severest criticism that 
can justly be placed upon the educator and his 

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methods is— HE HAS YET TO FIND, FOLLOW 
AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF (for the benefit 
of the student and of civilization) THE FUNC- 
TION OF THE MATURING ORGANS OF THE 
BODY. 

Without this at his command he inevitably vio- 
lates the function of the articulating devices of the 
body — both physical and mental. He inevitably im- 
poses action upon the various organs of the body 
before they (the various organs of the body) are 
sufficiently matured to receive and care for the ac- 
tion desired, and to which they were created. The 
educator therefore has been forced to deal in palli- 
ates, and not with the essentials provided for the 
reception and the discharge of an impression. 

The business of man, being of spirit, it is pertin- 
ent to observe that its culture belongs to secular 
education. If it were made an interest of economics 
we would not have the present moral uncertainties 
to contend with. We would, every one of us, be in 
command of our resources — using them with might 
and main to establish our identity as units of the 
earth and of the universe. Our individual, state and 
national forms of governmental efficiency would rise 
to heights commensurate with the standards set by 
such process of spiritual economics. 

Every man has been slowly compelled to recog- 
nize that he has been violated ; that he has not been 
able to get the promised results from his educa- 
tional processes. It is part of the reason for the un- 

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rest which is so rampant in this 20th century. For 
with the realization that man is not 100 per cent 
efficient, there is unrest and dissatisfaction. Then, 
too, when man realizes that the Creator would not 
have released the human organization unless He 
had had faith in its purpose, he is up against an- 
other reason for the sense of unrest and dissatisfac- 
tion which finds its level in this 20th century's 
crisis, the greatest perhaps in all human history. 

It has been well said that "Susceptibility and 
sympathetic nerve waste are synonymous." It is a 
fact that if the Hirerophants, Sages, Prophets' 
Priests and Wise Men of old had been acquainted 
with the influence of physical impediments upon 
the action vested in the mental equivalent, they 
would not have enunciated some of the things they 
did as of divine or any other type of revelation. 
Such statements as "For I know that no good thing 
dwelleth in me, for the flesh lusteth against spirit, 
and spirit against flesh * * *" would not have 
been uttered. They would have understood the 
reason for such a state of human affairs, and they 
would have been in position to apply the remedy. 

Our modern thought appears just as much at 
sea — concerning the release of spirit. For instance, 
in a recent Christian Science lecture (quoted from 
The Monitor) the lecturer states "The chief diffi- 
culty mortals have in understanding a spiritual idea 
is due to the obstinate unwillingness of the ma- 

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terial mind to accept anything which may disturb 
its complacency, or displace its supremacy." 

Orificial and other physical abnormalities prove 
that this "obstinate unwillingness of the material 
mind to accept anything which may disturb its 
complacency, or displace its supremacy" is due to a 
tangle of the physical act with the action vested in 
its mental equivalent. And where this tangle holds 
sway, the victim is unable to help himself. He is 
not in need of prayer, nor is he in need of burnt 
sacrifices to appease an angry God. What he needs 
is attention from an orificial surgeon. Further, 
while suffering from such a tangle, it is practically 
useless to apply spiritual remedy's to his affliction. 
For it can only lead to an increase of the affliction. 

In my opinion it is upon the postulate — a perfect 
physical co-ordination and an action in harmony 
with spirit — that man will be able to unscramble 
the nasty scramble into which the human race has 
been plunged. It gives a measure of human action 
and endeavor that is unquestioned, as it is the one 
and only measure of human endeavor that had the 
Creator's consent before it was released. 



WHAT SHALL I DO. 

All human sensibilities center around vocal ex- 
pression. 

The five senses are but localized focal-points, 
each contributing to the great center of expression 

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— a use of voice and its distinctions. Each of the 
five senses pay tribute to the sensory apparatus as a 
whole. Each proceed from the silent, powerful im- 
pellent which appears in the form of an impulse, 
and in which is imbedded an impression. 

The "What shall I do" has been put to the 
author of this volume over and over. While I be- 
lieve the answer is simple, it must be remembered 
that while it is comparatively easy to overcome a 
habit of the physical, it is quite another task to 
overcome a habit of the mental. The reason for it 
being that in the action vested in the mental equiva- 
lent man is up against the very substance of the uni- 
verse, the very substance from which all sense of 
the great game of life proceeds. If he mechanically 
"sets" his sense of those activities of the universe 
which have been especially reserved for his mental 
equivalent — its action — he is up against the severest 
proposition known to man. The fact that the physi- 
cal will automatically take on whatever is presented 
to it, formulating its action with spirit, makes it all 
the more difficult to straighten one's self out; to 
clear one's action of impediments of the physical 
that have been placed upon its mental equivalent. 
The processes employed to vocally express an im- 
pression works both ways. That is, if any one "sets" 
his muscle and his nerve, he automatically "sets" 
the action of his mental equivalent. If he does this 
he "sets" his intellectual rights. If he "sets" his in- 
tellectual rights, he restricts his sense of spirit- 

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uality, and last, but not the least, he "sets" the 
potential resources of his soul element. 

It is for this reason that the statement of the 
noted ecclesiastic "Give me the child until he is six 
years old, you may have him after that, for he is 
mine" means so much. That the ecclesiastic would 
impose a physical, mental, spiritual, intellectual and 
psychical restraint upon the child before he was cap- 
able of self-determination is unspeakably false in 
attitude. While it may satisfy the childish imagin- 
ation and while it may satisfy the purpose of the 
ecclesiastic, it most certainly is a violation of human 
living rights of impression and expression — as re- 
leased by the Creator that man might make his act 
and his thought intelligible. And as far as the 
necessary stamina of human efficiency is concerned, 
it is one of the reasons why this 20th century con- 
tends with poor business ethics, cheap mental states 
and shabby spirituality. 

As the mental equivalent of man is locked within 
the physical we need to carefully exercise the ma- 
chinery of the physical. The "What Shall I Do" is 
only concerned with the right to associate the phys- 
ical act with the action vested in the mental equiva- 
lent. Therefore : 

1. Look out for the fast letter, syllable and word. 

They usually proceed from an intense desire to 
grasp and vocally express the intention of the im- 

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pression in mind. As they proceed from an orig- 
inal ability of the articulating devices of the physical 
to spontaneously adapt themselves to whatever is 
in mind — they are very tricky. We are readily de- 
ceived — if we are not very careful of the manner in 
which we formulate the physical act and associate 
it with the action vested in its mental equivalent. 
If we would know what is the matter with this 20th 
century's civilization we will find it here, at this 
spot — a failure to definitely associate the physical 
act with the action vested in its mental equivalent. 
If we would find out why we, as a human race, have 
to struggle with a confusion of impulses, and why 
we are a mass of precipitation and anticipation we 
will find it at this spot. The fast letter, syllable 
and word force what may be termed a disappearing 
act upon both the physical and the mental articu- 
lating devices. Consequently man has to fight for 
every act which ordinarily would automatically ad- 
just itself to the purpose of his impressions. 

2. Look out for the many phases of hisses. 

The varied hisses are the meanest and most 
treacherous of physical articulates. They show the 
muscular and nervous tension back of them. They 
prove that this muscular and nervous tension robs 
man of a right to use the tip of the tongue, for — as 
noted before — the tip of the tongue is pushed back 
upon the mass of the tongue. And so its normal 
resiliency is lost to man. 

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There are few who can definitely articulate the 
distinctions which exist in the varied hisses. There 
are few who can definitely articulate the purpose of 
the varied hisses. And as the hisses are directly 
concerned with the whispering element of voice — 
the second position of voice — man cannot strictly 
attend to the purpose of voice as released to this 
second position mentioned. 

They prevent a purposeful realization of the for- 
mulating period of voice — that phase of voice which 
associates the physical act with the action vested in 
man's mental equivalent. And which no technical 
process yet devised has been able to release to the 
human race. 

3. Be careful to see to it that you punctuate your 
vocal use of sentence forms. 

This is a very important factor in "What Shall 
I do." 

It is a factor which is neglected. It would per- 
mit the physical articulating devices to adjust them- 
selves to whatever was in mind concerning the im- 
pression. 

The punctuation of sentence forms will enable 
you to sense and use deliberation; give vocal poise 
and enable you to select the particular idiom best 
suited to the impression in mind, and its expression. 

4. Be careful that you finish every letter, syl- 
lable and word in a sentence form. 

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This will enable you to hold each sound-form 
true to its original purpose. It will enable you to 
avoid an artificial accentuation which proceeds 
from the physical, and which, in nearly every case, 
defeats your use of both the sound-form and the let- 
ter, syllable and word-form used. 

Of course, in your endeavor to follow these sim- 
ple facts you will be up against the ancient and 
modern textbook which deals with proper enunci- 
ation for speakers and singers. You will find that 
each textbook tells you exactly how to place your 
lips, tongue and organs of the throat to produce re- 
sults. If you give these instructions careful atten- 
tion you will find that they avoid and do not meet 
the real issue of man's rights of impression and ex- 
pression. That is, the whole scheme is a physical 
idealization of a spiritual fact, a spiritual fact which 
would be automatically released if it were properly 
associated with its physical mechanism. 

If you will strictly attend to these things — above 
mentioned — you will find many interesting facts 
which otherwise would escape your attention. For 
instance : 

They will gradually prove to you that while the 
physical is only an instrument especially designed 
and released that man might find its mental equiva- 
lent and thus to find and establish his identity as a 
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will strictly mind the business of its purpose. You 
will find that it will readily and willingly adapt 
itself to your every impression, even to taking on 
the minutest phase of the impression in mind, and 
without any physical hindrance. 

They will gradually release you from an over- 
bearing muscular and nervous tension — the bane of 
life and its living. This will gradually release your 
effort so that you can and you will find the great 
line of demarcation which exists between the two 
great worlds in which man is privileged to play the 
great game of life and its living. 

They will gradually release you to the one and 
only postulate which the Creator released that man 
might make his act and his thought intelligible. 
And that he might connect himself with those ac- 
tivities of the universe which do not ordinarily ap- 
pear in the physical — and which have been reserved 
for him via a use of the "still small voice" which 
he is to find in his mental equivalent. 

They will gradually release to your sensibilities 
the distinction that exists between sound-forms and 
your use of letter, syllable, word and sentence 
forms. This will release to you the distinction that 
exists between sound and tone or tonality, as it 
will gradually prove to you that tone proceeds from 
human character. You will then be able to build 
your sense of the impression in mind without hin- 
drance and without encountering the usual physical 
impediments. 

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You will, as you release yourself from muscular 
and nervous tension, gradually release to your use 
what is termed the ''One Position" vocal scale, a 
use of sound-forms which make up voice and which 
is yours by virtue of physical co-ordination, but 
which has been denied to the majority of the human 
race by the methods employed by the vocal cultur- 
ist. 

You will gradually learn to postulate all your 
vocal action upon the one and only focal-point re- 
leased by the Creator as a determinant of the "still 
small voice" — RESONANCE — a position which is 
free from all physical and mental influences and 
which definitely relates you to those activities of 
the universe which have been especially reserved 
for human use via the "still small voice." 

You will, of course, gradually release to your 
volition a correct use of the "still small voice," the 
mightiest phase — though least understood — of 
voice ; that phase of voice that definitely proves that 
man LIVES, at least has the beginning of life in 
mental states. This will also prove to you how 
penurious of actual harmonic interests the old con- 
ception of heavenly estates has been, and how im- 
poverished and uncertain of legitimate results it 
was and still is. It will prove to you that the at- 
tempt to build a conception of heaven upon what 
was possessed by Occult Science was quite beside 
real human interests. It will also prove to you that 
the attempt to release to man an idea of heaven was 

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wrongly postulated, in fact was quite foreign to the 
actual facts in the case. Further, that it was a very 
laborious attempt to release to the mind of man 
such a fact. It will prove to you that the classified 
heaven of Occult Science and its modern successors, 
the isms, cults, religions and ecclesiastical doctrines 
of belief, is nothing more nor less than an already 
provided HAVEN which is to be found in the men- 
tal equivalent of the physical act. 

They will prove to you how impoverished of 
actual facts Occult Science was concerning the most 
vital focal-point that was released by the Creator 
that man might make his act and his thought intel- 
ligible. 

They will prove to you that man's salvation is 
not an incident born of rhapsodic emotional states, 
but — because he is a being of motive-interests — in 
a use of those activities of the universe which do 
not ordinarily appear in the physical, he has the 
means wherewith he may accomplish his salvation 
in due form, and in accord with the purpose of the 
Creator in man, upon the earth and in the universe. 

You will gradually sense the reason why the 
human race has been and still is smothered, and 
you will be in position to avoid its imposition upon 
yourself. You will, of course, gradually release 
yourself of any undue physical imposition upon the 
mental equivalent, and which prevents man from 
exercising the gift and the privileges vested in the 
great game of life and its living. 

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They will gradually release you from any fear 
of invasion from physical or spiritual conditions of 
life and its living. When you come into contact 
with your fellows, you will be able to determine, 
practically anticipate, what is behind his vocal act. 
This, in itself, is a mighty interest to the human 
race, as it will place the one who has possession of 
it and who would rightly use it in position to pro- 
tect himself. It will also gradually force the human 
race to be decently human. It would also enable 
those who would take advantage of their less in- 
formed fellows to secure an opportunity which they 
would otherwise not have. I do not hesitate to 
make the statement, however, for there is sufficient 
in the universe to overtake any overzealous indi- 
vidual; he who would deliberately take advantage 
of his less informed fellows. Besides the one who 
undertakes the proposition laid in the above men- 
tioned facts has much to contend with before he is 
in full possession of its force. 

I trust my readers will understand that the 
above mentioned only refer to a release from phys- 
ical impediments. It is certain, however, that if 
we find and exercise a freedom of the physical 
articulate devices, we will be in position to associate 
ourselves with spirit. 

As all vocal expression is based upon the peculi- 
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pie facts hold good in all language forms. And if 
they are rightly exercised they will prove that man 
must be free from all physical abnormalities before 
he may hope to definitely associate himself with 
those activities of the universe which have been 
especially released and reserved that he might 
establish his identity as a unit of the earth and of 
the universe. 

FRANK FRUTTCHEY. 

Detroit, Michigan. 



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